Petrified? I think not. He fought smart & won just about every round in a lack luster match. Perspective.
Agreed. Jesus he puts in a boring display and yet dominates and wins easily and it is being scared?:-( It just shows he can win fights without having to blast the guy away. I give Lewis full credit for schooling Tua, but no doubt some people think it was being scared. It is boxing, not a street fight.
I really do not think that Sam Peter is a stupid fighter His culture makes him aggressive. If Sam Peter comes into a fight around 235-240 and in shape he would wear Haye out He would be all over him. He could do the same to vitali except that Vitalis strength and size causes a problem. This is where his natural ability comes forward. Just say sic em. the only way haye could win is to get on his bicycle and jab and move and counter and move I donot see that in haye's make up. Some of you Brits are rather daff in your boxing opinions. You must be very young.
You don't think haye has the boxing skill and speed to outbox that plodder peter, which fighters have you been watching.
A well prepared Vitali should be able to dispatch of Peter leaving both Klit's with all the power in the HW division & Haye with a serious decision? Which one is first?
Haye would do bad things to Sam no matter what shape Sam comes in at, and as for doing Vitali... Sam couldnt do the weaker less talented brother let alone the Lewis beating Vitali (and im a Brit)... Not sure which David Haye you been watching but he jabs, moves and counters very well, and when he comes forward and applies pressure Sam drops till 10.... Not that im a massive Haye fan, far from it, but you got it all wrong man
He jabs ok and moves ok but he cannot do it backing up that is the difference Vitali can make peter back up i donot think that haye can do that. So haye will have to fight backing up, can he do it. Vlad can, that is what makes him very good. when peter stayed in there with james toney it gave me more respect for him I understand that James was fat and older but haye has never been as smart and as good as james toney.
Knockouts are fun to watch. Knockouts also tend to distract fans from looking at the complete skill set of a knockout artist. Fans tend to get obsessed by the knockouts and miss some of the deficiencies of knockout artists. Haye is a knockout artist but he has some serious flaws. His defense isn't great. I question his stamina. He's doesn't have what I'd call blinding speed and fast footwork. I'm not too sure how good his chin is. And his resume isn't exactly earth shattering. The loud mouth doesn't bother me. He's just trying to get attention. And I actually think he can pose problems for some of the pretenders in the heavyweight division but I'm not sold on a bulked up 217 pounder who at one point was fighting as a cruiser weight well below the maximum dealing with fat slobs leaning on him and throwing him around the ring. There's way too many unanswered questions about Haye to be certain of anything.
Haye really does have some serious flaws, which is why i dont jump on that bandwagon neither, he is a legitimate HW hope which us Brits havent had in long time so he got my backing on that basis. He doesnt have blinding handspeed and fast footwork but what HW at the minute has those..... He is quick though and will cause most lower ranked HW's problems, i just dont think he gonna walk through Vlad like he says, he gotta get round some awesome jab to do that, it aint that easy.... especially when Vlad pops that right and potentially finishes it there and then.
Thanks for that dose of reality.......................petrified my ass. Wlad should've had that knockdown credited too, when he bounced Sultan off the bottom rope.
Well said. I'd welcome either Klitschko or Peter fighting vs. Haye once Haye's proved his worth by fighting and beating a couple of top 10 HW's to earn his shot.
Maybe you should. Haye caught Solis in the 1st when Solis was brawling and wild and open in that sequence. After that Solis started to fight smart and he boxed Haye's ear's off, landing almost every jab and straight right he threw, picking almost any of Haye's sloppy punches on his arms/gloves. He had better handspeed, better footwork and was far more accurate. Haye's defence was atrocious with his left hand down his waist, he couldn't block any punches.