Bryant Jennings just sunk David Haye's stock

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Good post, but Haye fought a 4 year younger version of Wladimir who had a literal AXE to grind.:nono

 

Jennings has heart, haye has no heart.

 

To be fair to Haye, unlike Jennings he wasn't a natural heavyweight. He was more like the British Cunningham - elite cruiserweight, mediocre heavyweight. It is still impressive he managed to not get KO'd by a more close to prime Klitschko who at that point was on a big KO spree over decent fighters.

 

But Jennings wasn't suffering from an horrific, career threatening sore little toe.

 

Haye was scared of getting stopped. He ran his mouth so much that a stoppage would have been too humiliating. Jennings went in there wanting to win.

 

Guys did you stop to think Maybe Hayes broken toe affected his performance...

a broken toe your putting weight on it all the time.

 

If his pinky toe was that bad, maybe he should have pulled out of the fight. Though pulling out of a fight due to injury is the last thin David Haye would ever do :rofl

His performance vs Wlad was not far off from his performance vs SNV. Was his pinky toe hurt then too?

 

na it was his 4th toe that time.

 

I don't think Haye did as bad as people on this site say he did. He was a threat all the way through and his defense nullified most of Wlad's "trademark" offense.

Most importantly, in this comparison, you are overlooking the tremendous difference that a referee makes. Wladimir was actually admonished for holding in the Jennings fight for nearly the duration. That changes things considerably.

 

I was at the Jennings fight last night.

Sorry for the incomplete post above; mobile ESB is finicky. My whole post didn't go through initially.

To be honest, your sentiments can be construed a different way. Perhaps the fact that Haye (a cruiserweight) and Jennings (a novice) did far better than expected (and everyone expected them both to be spectacularly KO'ed) sheds light on something about Wladimir's difficulties with certain styles.

 

Haye would have knocked Wlad out last night with that ref.

Generaz protected Wlad and allowed him back hump the big bad boogey man Haye every time he came forward.

 

Haye came closer to winning and fought a peak version. The reason he came closer is that he had the power to stop Wlad at any point, unlike Jennings. He landed a few good punches but never got the one in that really rattled Wlad.

 

A good, neutral, and stern referee can change the way a fight plays out in a BIG way. That was my whole point.