you need to go and study your Boxing history. :roflatsch There were several people on here picking Gomez they were writing 5 paragraph essay's on here detailing why. Haye has shown NOTHING at Heavyweight to lead us to believe all these mythical posts about his speed, power, etc. It is a very bad style match up for Haye.
Your clutching at straws my friend, where was Haye hurt vs Barrett? Slipping and falling to the canvas doesn't count and getting hit after you slipped doesn't count either. Hide fought nobody even relevant at Cruiserweight and his style is nothing like Haye's.
Hide was a very good boxer, with an awful chin, but he gets a rough deal on here due to his loss to VITLAY. He was a pure idiot, and still is, and his training habits were bizarre to say the least. Haye doesn't have those problems and his chin is nowhere near as bad as Hides was. The crowning achievement of Hide's career was going 6 rounds with Riddick Bowe. Haye is better than that and I think he'll show this when he gets VITLAY in the ring, as you say speed kills. Let's not forget Ali was almost KO'd by Cooper yet took Foremans bombs....the one that you don't see coming is the one that hurts you and I'm sure Haye will see every one of VITLAYS shots coming.
See you on fight night. I'm very confident with predicting VK by KO/TKO. Go back and watch the Barrett fight. Haye was stung repeatedly. After I watched the fight again, I realized how tough it would be for Haye to fight the top guys at HW.
I am pretty sure I know more history than you do, especially in the Heavyweight Division; anyway, I am not going to turn this into a pissing contest. Vitali was heavily favored in his last fight, maybe you need to go study your history. You can't even remember as far back as his last fight. How many people were picking Gomez? Two? Three? Haye has shown that he has blazing speed and has brought up his power at this weight by utterly destroying Monte Barrett. If I remember correctly, plenty of posters were calling for him to fight Barrett. Vitali will have a lot of trouble dealing with Haye's speed. He hasn't fought anyone like Haye in 6+ years.
Neither do I. Haye wasn't hurt once by Barrett. Compare and contrast with the Klit-ites talking about WALDO beating Barrett..it's interesting.
:roflatsch I know VitKlit was the favorite. It does not change the fact of what several people posted here. I never said Klitschko was as good as Liston or that Haye is close to Patterson (he isn't). It was an example of the fight and what is going to happen. Klitschko is going to blow this guy away early. Haye will have fought 7 rounds in over 18 months by time this fight happens. I will give you another fight as an example fopr this one which is the Holmes-Cooney fight. Since you know so much about Heavyweight History you will know what I am talking about.
It really is. They say that Barrett hasn't been relevant for years, which is true. But I remember them calling for Haye to fight Barrett after he destroyed Tye Fields.
I think it was the 3rd, I'd have to look it up. He was getting stung. There was one time where he would have been down if not for the bottom rope. Haye is fast with his hands. But his legs aren't good, he doesn't move that well. That is likely to be a huge problem for him, especially against someone with VK's chin.
False. I put the fight up on YouTube (it's since been taken down) and watched it I don't know how many times. He was stung, and I think he even said he was stung after the fight.
Read this account of the fight: http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=3705367 That's just one example of what I'm talking about.
I remember them laughing at Haye calling Rahman out too, claiming Rahman was an over the hill bum. Rahman balked on the Haye fight and fought WALDO instead at late notice and all of a sudden he was "the great Hasim Rahman, that beat Lennox Lewis" Maybe WALDO should fight Larry Holmes next, Holmes beat Ali right, so a win over him at this stage would make WALDO the greatest. Can't fault that logic, personally, if you exclude the Purrity/Sanders/Brewster factor.