Haye fought a brilliant fight. Also Haye uses some interesting training techniques, which could be used more in heavyweight boxing (focusing on explosiveness etc). But still, that being said: If Valuev was landing a lot of jabs on Haye, Vlad will land even more. I think 5 or so will be enough for Haye.
I'm pleased Haye won...but I did think he lost as did the sky commentators...wonder how the american tv commentry had it? I think Haye would have to be a little more aggressive and less scared if he's going to have a chance against the Klitschkos...and we know he did fight scared against a lighter hitting much slower Valuev. His speed will give him a chance more so against Wladimir...but I cant see how he has any chance against Vitali. If it ever happens I hope I'm wrong but as a Haye fan I was a little disapointed with his negative performance.
We better order in a huge container load of crow for when Haye beats the Klit Sisters...you know nothing ******s on here are going to be gourging on it for quite a while, I can't wait....enjoy
Sure he'll beat Wlad and Vitali... sure....... :rofl Haye could not even carry their jockstrap, and amateur pedigree wise, Haye is like a bum compared to those two.
He already got his conditioning for the Valuev fight by running scared from Vitali and Wladimir. :smoke
Vitali will destroy Haye. I cannot see any way that Haye beats him. Against Wlad he has a punchers chance for sure.
While I disliked Haye for his antics, I was really open to be proven wrong about him as a fighter. So far, here is what Haye said and delivered: He said 18 months ago how he wanted to bring excitement to the HW division. Since then, he managed two fights, against a shot Barrett and Valuev, who is arguably one of the worst boxing title holders in recent history. The performance against Barrett was OK, Haye fought nervous but won because of his vastly superior talent. Nothing special there, a prime Barrett was beaten to pieces by Wlad ten years earlier, but an OK performance. Haye then failed to make a fight happen with Rahman and Johnson, who were both astonished by the lack of professionalims on part of Haye's camp. Neither fighter has been know for being very difficult to deal with in landing fights. Then he called the Klitschkos boring and said Wlad would be HIS EASIEST FIGHT. On june 20th, Wlad looked at his best against Chagaev, who beat Valuev thoroughly two years ago. After unbelievable bull**** about asking Wlad for a postponment for three weeks, five weeks, eight weeks, Haye critizised Wlad complete domination of Chagaev as boring and again said how much excitement he would bring to the division. He then claimed that Vitali's contract demands were unrealistic, the same contract he ahd already signed for the fight against Wlad (his easiest, ever), for which he didn't show up. He finally managed to land a fight against Valuev, who was beaten by Chagaev and who should have lost to Donald, Ruiz and an ancient Holyfield. His performance against Valuev was timid, boring, safety - first. He won, alright, but it was less exciting than Holyfield or Chagaev against Valuev. Sure, he "broke" his hand, but somehow he didn't throw more punches before "breaking" his hand and actually threw his best punches in the 12th, after fighting with a "broken" hand for nine rounds. Now, threads come out by his fans pointing out that Haye gave up so much height, weight etc. as if that deterred Chagaev or Holyfield, both smaller than Haye, from attacking. Haye fans claim again that he would knock out the Klitschkos, who both already knocked our fighters (Donald and Chag) who looked more impressive against Valuev than Haye did. Haye doesn't bring any REAL excitement to the division, all the excitement is about his talking, what he will do, but never about something he actually DOES in the ring. Vitali - Arreola was a clash of two respectful fighters who didn't need trash talk to sell their fight and it was action packed with over 1100 punches thrown in ten rounds. Chambers - Dimitrenko was an exciting HW fight, where a little man dominated a bigger man. Here we can talk abput actual fights being exciting. Haye was exciting at cruiserweight, his addition to the HW division is one of the worst cases of hype without substance in recent boxing history.
Even against Wladimir, he doesn't stand a chance. A determined Wladimir will destroy David Haye inside of one round. If Haye thinks that the Barrett and Valuev hit hard, he has no idea what hard is. Wladimir has stopped or ko'd some of the best chins to come around in the last two decades. Mercer, Byrd, Brewster, Rahmann, Thompson, Chagaev, Brock, McCline, Shufford. None of those guys ever had a history of getting KO'd or stopped before they fought Wladimir. And think about the guys who have dropped Wladimir vs the guys who have dropped Haye. There is no comparison in their punching power. Wladimir has been dropped by murderous punchers, while Haye has been dropped by the French.
the funniest or stupidiest post i have seen by a Haye fan is this "Haye went toe to toe with a 7 foot beast" in that little short sentence there is much wrong with it "toe to toe" would be ali-frazier, hagler-hearns. tyson-ruddock, foreman-lyle. toe to toe means you stand, plant your feet and try and take the guys head off. i must have missed that part. 7 foot Beast so god damn what hes 7 foot tall. that means **** when youre a heavyweight. "Beast" a beast is a fighter like...well John Mugabi, Gerald McClellan, Nigel Benn, Mike Tyson, someone that comes at you with every punch trying to knock you out. agressive and intent. Valeuv is a lumbering slow mass that slowly chased after haye, with no meaningful result.