Once Haye stepped into the ring with Wlad, he quickly realized...

:huh Im actually agreeing with you . HELL must be getting cold .:yep

 

Yup. As soon as he was in the ring and Wlad marched across and cut it off it became very real for him, HOWEVER he still coped really well with it

My rating of him is determined by how highly I rate Wlad, and I expected Haye to take punch after punch after punch and not be able to slip them

He was brilliant athletically and it was extremely hard for Wlad to hit him

I went in to the fight with a grin on my face (I was watching it with someone who was sure Haye was going to KTFO Wlad) knowing Wlad would dominate him

And at the end of it I had been impressed by some of the things Haye showed

 

Whatever Haye's plan was he did not seem able to execute it and credit has to go to Wlad for that.

 

He fell into the trap a lot of people do with Wlad - trying to land one big punch

 

yip..are we all starting to notice that maybe wlad dosnt have a china chin???

 

He doesn't stand up well to a barrage of punches

But I don't think his chin is that bad, just his mentality when being hit, seems to lose his balance, composure n everything

 

Don't get me wrong Wlad can't take decent successive shots very well at all, but you can't really expect to get him out of there with one, problem is as soon as you DO hit him with that one, he will back off and /or hold (see vs Haye round 12)

 

It's great to see Esb has so many mind readers/Psychologists.

 

i didnt think he was dazed i just think thats what he does when hes hit..he knows hes dangerous so hold is what he was always gona do if tagged...like vidic said i think he always had a balance issue and used to panic..now he dosnt under manny..i personly think hes took better shots off other fighters than haye and they also didnt faze him..:good

 

agreed..i acutally think peter hit him with a crackin shot on a break (peter 2) and it didnt even fizz on him just needs to keep on improving that mental problem he has and he would be even better i think

 

I do actually think he was dazed in the 12th, you can tell by the difference in reactions from when he was hit earlier in the fight and just opened up on Haye, Haye hit him with a right, then Wlad simply backed him up and unloaded (landed a left, right, hook to the 'chest' and a hook to the head) after which Haye smiled and said 'come on'

In the 12th he got hit and instantly tried to smother Haye, had him in a headlock for about 10 seconds lol.

 

wlad hit him with a huge right in round 4 or 5 and I was impressed with haye actually staying up.