Toronto Sun: Haye's credentials as a heavyweight champ could hardly be phonier

Toronto Sun

Haye-Harrison fight a boxing travesty


"So wretched was the contest the Puerto Rican referee was obliged to remind Haye and Harrison that one of their contractual obligations was to throw at least one punch. The “fight” ended in the third round when Haye launched his first serious attack and Harrison subsided into a response that would have been more appropriate from a nervous kitten. The controversy didn’t end there. Haye, who had assiduously avoided a fight which might have given a scrap of credence to his ascent to a title once owned by the likes of Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis — one against either of the Klitschko brothers from the Ukraine who hold the other versions of the belt — promptly announced that he had planned on a third round victory for the benefit of himself and his friends and family while doing business with the bookmakers.
When he was reminded that this was in open defiance of the regulations of the British Boxing Board of Control he promptly retracted, said the coup hadn’t happened, he was talking only in a general sense. The board accepted Haye’s new version of events and also said it would be too harsh to withdraw Harrison’s $2 million-plus purse despite the fact the 39-year-old had failed to throw no more than one irresolute jab.
Haye, a cruiserweight of some talent but with a worryingly fragile chin, can call himself a heavyweight champion only on credentials which could hardly be phonier..."

http://www.torontosun.com/sports/othersports/2010/11/20/16239036.html

 

Fraudley AND Haye should have had their purses withheld. Fraudley for being the worst contender of all time and Haye for not throwing a single punch until his bet round. Shame on them. Phonies and frauds!

 

I knew they wouldn't. Crooks investigating their fellow crooks. Just like politicians investigating each other.

And then there's the little matter of that little nod and mumbled "now".

And don't tell me Harrison couldn't fight better than that. I've seen his other fights. He was just in this one to lie down and he didn't even bother to try and pretend otherwise.