BRILLIANT ARTICLE - read it: The Tragic Truth of Haye-Harrison

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  1. BigBone

    BigBone Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Completely illegal mate.
     
  2. shaunster101

    shaunster101 Yido Full Member

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    Ok, maybe to say 'mentally ill' is a bit far, but I have though for sometime that he is both delusional and mentally weak, which is a psychological problem.

    How many times has he found out that he's not as good as he though he was? Pretty much every fight he's been in, yet he continues to delude himself about his abilities. Then when he gets in the ring he freezes more than any fighter I've ever seen, and that's even against taxi drivers.

    In my book that is a mental problem, especially when you're a boxer it leads to you getting beaten up.

    You don't agree?
     
  3. zicas

    zicas Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Good article (seriously).
    This is a sad business sometimes. I was also cheering on the KO but felt bad for the humiliated Audley afterwards.
    Shame on David Haye for taking this fight.
     
  4. Arran

    Arran Boxing Junkie banned

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    Harrison has the same mental problems as Holyfield, they believe its their destiny to be champ (again in holys case), is dillusion a mental problem? im not a doctor, but I would say the both suffer from it! You will see when Harrison announces his next fight rather than retire.
     
  5. KillerDeluxe

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    whatever dude, i'm not gonna sit here and debate with you. i don't have time to read your long articles, posts, or opinions...i have a life outside this forum...watching those 3 long rounds on youtube was enough for me to interpret what was going on in that ring, and it wasn't right. but im just saying, it was a farce of a title defense, with numerous suspicions around it, but you can't seem to grasp that. your ismeal abdoul defense in the other topic is quite laughable too.

    cheers good day
     
  6. BigBone

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    "I put a lot of money on the third round and a lot of my friends and family did." It's not a judgmenet call, he flat out said it. You can win up to 50 TIMES your money with correct round betting, from a $100 bet you can buy a new car, from $1000 a new flat. This is a dirty business. unfortunately, and this situation has suspicious written all over at, and I'm simply commenting on what's the UK boxing media is overwhelmed with.
     
  7. shaunster101

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    I'm not sure if it constitutes a mental illness, but that's why I said it's a mental problem, especially for him.

    However, reading some of the replies on here I do have the feeling that perhaps I might be overstating this case abit, mainly because I felt bad for the guy because his delusions and fragile mentality lead him to be humiliated on such a scale. His own delusional talk and the sky hype machine set him up for an inevitable fall that was always coming.
     
  8. Arran

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    to lose yes, to win? not so sure
     
  9. shaunster101

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    Yes, I can see how comparing a fight where David Haye intentionally finished the fight at a point he had decided before the fight (no doubt with his friends and family benefitting from bets, as they have done for his whole career) to the Harrison fight is laughable, because that's nothing like what happened on Saturday is it :huh

    You really are ****ing dumb
     
  10. BigBone

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    With Haye's statement clear, board general secretary Robert Smith said: "It is against our regulations for boxers to bet on themselves."

    This is really serious. An employer of IMG, a company that indirectly represent Roger Federer, allegedly put money on the tennis player and there's a major scandal about it. The two barely contact each other. Haye himself and his close relatives put money on the exact outcome according to the fighter, who later said he didn't know about the rule (!), and the following day he said the complete opposite, that he didn't bet.
     
  11. pijo

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  12. ed7890

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    Not even a tiny bit, I think you are miles off the mark. The way you and this article are portraying it, it's like he has dementia. It's a fairly large jump to say that a guy who shite talks about how great he is, is actually a mental patient who deserves pity.

    He gets paid every time to get back in the ring, and quite well to get in the ring this time. He is a grown man, and if he makes that decision it's up to him.
     
  13. shaunster101

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    I'm with you on that. Given the fact that he admitted as much after the fight, it really needs looking into further than just taking his retraction of the statement at face value
     
  14. marting

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    Oh it soooooooooo does matter that Harrison was called a joke by Haye.

    Haye bet on himself and had a good laugh at the same time. This was a wink and nod right in the face of the public. This man's arrogance knows no bounds.

    I brought that comment up by Haye at least 4 or 5 times before the fight. Haye's going to write an autobiography some day and there will be a chapter dedicated to this fight.
     
  15. ed7890

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    I hate this ****. Isn't Harrision quite well off? If his family isn't actually starving, then he didn't have to take the fight.