Benn: Haye has to fight on

Nigel would have gone out there to win the fight (without needing to talk all that sh*t prior to it).

It's epically embarrassing that Haye talked so much before the fight...but in the end fought like a coward in the biggest night of his boxing career. As I've said before, fighting like that isn't "bad" in itself, but after everything Haye subjected us to...he deserves to be ridiculed.

 

Nigel talked as much **** as anyone pre fight. Haye should do what Benn did in defeat...go to the US, get his head straight and come back firing on all cylinders

Stupid word to use

 

Benn did more than his fair bit of trash talk.

 

Why is it stupid? Explain please.

There's trash talk and then there's doing what Haye did.

 

You should only call someone a coward when that person isn't prepared to do something that you are. Anyone who earns a living by getting caught flush by a 6'7" 245Lbs man is anything but a coward

Benn was much worse than Haye in a sense because most of the time he actually meant what was coming out of his mouth.

 

What did Haye did was cowardly -- fact. I've never seen anyone disrespect a fighter so much and then "perform" in the manner in which Haye did. He did not put anything on the line...in fact, he tried his damnest to avoid fighting bar the odd "closed-eyes-swing-for-fences-desperately-hope-I-don't get-hit-no-risk-*****-moves". As I said, fighting like that isn't something I'd normally criticise...but for Haye the criticism is deserved. But tell me how a fight fan isn't supposed to call Haye out as a coward after he --on-top of everything -- decides to cry and blame everything on his toe (his little toe at that!)

That was a disgrace to every warrior who has fought in genuinely tough/brutal/life-and-death circumstances.


Oh and about Benn...you're right in a sense.

 

Jean Pascal vs Hopkins in second bout hardly tried to engage with a man he called a cheat and said he'd retire if anything his display just as bad.

He only attacked now and then against a man far older, and who didn't have a size advantage nor a good height advantage. He didn't go all out to get the win only in 12th did he really force the issue IIRC.

Haye's display was poor but standing in punching range with hands down isn't cowardly IMO. It's just he wasn't good enough to make the plan pay or the plan was not good enough (toe or no toe).

 

There's plenty who have done worse and meant it too.

I'm not saying Haye doesn't deserve stick, deserves to get the same back, he does, but in the grand scheme of boxing trash talk it was light weight kids stuff.

 

You haven't a clue what a real coward is so its pointless debating the point.

 

Yeah Barkely attended press conference against Toney with Machete. Toney switched and went to get a gun from a officer in the restaurant so he says ''i was gonna pop him there and then'' he said.

They told Toney is was part of the act but he said it's not how he does things (agree with him) and he wouldn't have it. He soon dished out a beating on Barkley.

 

Icemax- The voice of reason in a week of hysteria.

 

I think you're wrong. I've followed everything that has been said -- and there's a reason why Wlad can laugh off most of the things Toney says, for example, but feels genuinely hurt and bothered by what Haye has said and done (distant past, past and present).

Haye has crossed the line loads of times during his [fraudulent] career. I don't see lines of boxers making gang-**** jokes and the thinking they're too big to apologise etc etc.

 

Nice to see that you ducked all the points I made. If David "pink toe" Haye isn't a coward, Arturo Gatti wasn't a warrior.