...Okay, I feel bad laying out something that strongly worded when I have, in fact, packed it in once in a fight after getting dropped early. To be fair, it was a tough time for me and all that ****, but I don't have a right to talk about it like I just said it without this disclaimer. Disclaimer aside, Haye fought like a *****.
:good props for manning up like that. I can't call any fighter a ***** when they put their lives on the line for our entertainment, but you're more than justified in doing so.
What does Willard have to do with this? Did Willard even land a single shot against Dempsey? If not, then what does his weight have to do with anything?
Jack Dempsey would be far from elite today. And I don't think Haye's behavior against Wlad is indicative of how he would do against Dempsey. You could use that same kind of reasoning to predict that he would lose against Chisora, for example. Did you pick Haye to beat Chisora?
If Haye showed zero ring IQ against Wlad, he would have been knocked out. He was trying to prevent that from happening and he did. I don't like how Haye acted in that fight either, but what does it have to do with Haye against Dempsey? How is Dempsey comparable to Wlad? If nothing else, Dempsey would force Haye to fight - something Wlad didn't do. Unlike Wlad, Dempsey would be coming forward at Haye until one of them gets stopped. It's a completely different dynamic than Haye-Wlad.
McGrain has accurately summed up Haye in his several posts on this thread. Largely due to his mental make-up, Haye is less than the sum of his parts. The broken toe malarkey was cringeworthy in it's embarrasment - do you think guys like Dempsey, Frazier, Marciano and others would whine about a broken toe after a loss? They are made of sterner stuff - they are fighters, David Haye is a good athlete who happens to be a part-time boxer. If the competitive flame truly burned within his heart, he would call out Wlad for a rematch, not go for his older declining Brother. It is the equivalent to Jimmy Connors losing to John McEnroe and then calling out his brother Patrick. It is a disgrace to the legendary brave men who have been Heavyweight Champion of the World, and the dozens of brave men who failed valiantly to take the title. It is symbolic of the reasons also why boxing is going down the toilet year by year.