One thing you have to admit about Haye is..

:good

 

Yep, and why do you think that is???
Tyson was hyped like crazy, first in the US, later in the rest of the world.
Holyfield was the man after Tyson and still a US fighter with a great rivalry with Bowe, Lewis and again Tyson.
And Lewis is a Brit (I know Canadian actually) and one of the greats of boxing, no wonder the British newspapers were all over him.
But at that time the European mainland had already lost most of their interest and the Americans found Lewis "boring". But at the time at least there were a couple of American boxers who had a chance against (or even beat) him.

So it still was a product of the 80's hype and a caroussel of American and British boxers at the time.
The big names of that time tell the story. (no particular order)

Tyson (US)
Bruno (UK)
Holyfield (US)
Foreman (US)
Bowe (US)
Lewis (UK)
Moorer (US)
Bowe (US)
Hide (UK)
McCall (US)
Mercer (US)

 

Cultural hub? Great Britain needs to get a culture before coming a hub.

 

England.

 

Every nation has it's own culture. But to claim GB is the cultural hub of the western world is incorrect.

GB culture is weak and is being overpowered by european and american culture. There isn't much national culture in England, but they are more worldly.

 

Haye is annoying and people say he crosses the line. Fine. But they said that about Ali too. But everyone gets pissed at Haye. They difference with Ali was that he backed everything he said up. If Haye can beat Wlad at leas partially by winding him up (which is what Ali used to do) his actions will appear vindicated IMO. If not he will look very very foolish indeed. Haye is literally pulling a Ali Liston kind of thing here. Can he back it all up like the great man? We'll see.

 

What a dumbass

Football
Music
History

Name one country that rivals the UK in all those fields.

 

There is no need to slander the red indian culture which is in fact richer than a lot of the **** produced. Just because you don't understand a culture doesn't make it inferior.

That's all England has, it's past. It will always live off it's former glories because there are no glories that lie in the future. England has been reduced to sucking on the teet of the americans, regardless if England had a major saying in developing it. America is it's own beast now and England ride it's coat tails. England is irrelevant on the world stage - It has a say but no one pays attention to it.

Your last paragraph alone shows the drop GB has taken.

 

You forgot boxing.

 

Rival?

Are you serious?