How did the Haye vs Ruiz fight turn out for those of us who didn't catch it?

100% beat down. The result was not controversial at all. Haye did though excessively hit to the back of the head.

 

Completley legitamate, Ruiz was never in the fight Haye outboxed, outsped, and outpunched Ruiz beating him to the punch and putting on a brilliant display of hitting and not getting hit.

Haye admittedly rabbitpunched Ruiz a few times BUT Ruiz often turned his head in to the punch on a number of occasions,

All in all Haye was pretty brilliant, he beat Ruiz soundly and really put a beatdown on him, dropping him 5 times and breaking his nose, Ruiz's face after was a complete mess and you could tell that Haye had done the works.

Props to Ruiz for taking that much punishment before his corner retired him, he is as game as they come but Haye was in another league tonight.

 

Ruiz is known for hamming it up to get point deductions and DQs. Usually it's "low blows." I guess Haye didn't hit him close enough to the beltline to pull one of his fake jobs, so he pulled a new "rabbit" out of his hat!

 

Haye boxed with control, speed and power against a very game and focussed Ruiz.

Haye rabbit punched him a couple of times - but to be honest - if you don't want to be rabbit punched, stop turning your head away. It was all "handbags at dawn" stuff. The outcome of the fight was never really in any doubt.

It was a very good fight and Ruiz comes out of it with a lot of credit.
Haye outboxed him and knocked him down 4 times. A well deserved win.

I didn't know anything about any controversy until I came on here. It may be a bit of Jingoism.

 

****! It's like we watched the same fight! :good

 

I gave Ruiz the 4th (I think it was ...), so not a complete shut-out up to the stoppage IMO, but it wasn't far off.

 

The controversy is just haters clinging to anything they possibly can to discredit a good performance. Nobody is mentioning Ruiz rabbit punching, using his elbows and hitting Haye after the bell had gone in the 1st. Ruiz had no point deductions for any of that but this is still clearly biased officiating from the referee who was from Panama atsch

 

There is NO controversy. When you see the replay you'll agree. Haye totally dominated Ruiz. Nobody can argue that point.

 

No offense, not accusing the entire lot of you of bias, but it would be nice to hear more reports from people other than the British contingent.

 

Pretty exciting fight. Not blood and thunder by any means because it seemed like Ruiz was concerned with the power and rightly so after being knocked down numerous times. But he did really try to get his punches off and tried to the best of his ability but only landed glancing blows. Nothing on Haye's chin.

Haye was much more aggressive compared to the Valuev like anybody that has seen his career before that fight would know he is. He doesn't throw huge amounts but he upped his work-rate triple-fold for this fight against a same sized guy.

There was no holding like people thought there would be either, hardly a clinch. Haye's movement was too good to get involved in that.

 

Good post.

I agree with you. I like David Haye as a presence in the heavies, but there were certain things tonight that worried me.

It's a double-edged sword, though. His risk-taking style is part of the reason he's exciting to watch and is why many people like him. On the other hand, the purist part of me thinks he should tighten up on his defence and use the jab a lot more effectively than he does (he has a pretty decent jab when he decides to throw it at the right time). The question is whether he could do the latter without negatively affecting the former.

I was watching a stream on mute and had the BBC Radio coverage for audio. They were advancing the argument that he matches the style to the opponent and that, against Wlad for example, he would fight in a more "technically-correct" fashion which would give Wlad less opportunities. I think they were over-selling this point, though; I'm not convinced he's all that adaptable and his key strengths are what work for him.

For the first time in this fight I started to wonder whether he might need to change his trainer. I'm not sure Adam Booth can give him that defensive well-roundedness that would make him less open or harder to get rid of. On the other hand, I don't know whether you can do that without diluting his strengths, either. It's all a pretty open question at the moment.