Providing Haye wins, would you say the trash talk helped him on his way to victory?

[Uturn]

The build up to this fight has been somewhat controversial. Both men genuinely despise of one another, due to Haye displaying decapitated t-shirts of the K2 brothers heads and even bringing out his own game on how to beat Wlad recently. Haye is the talk of the town since coming up to the heavyweight division, he's created some excitement back into the division, something that was needed due to the dominance of both K2 who have destroyed everything put in front of them.

However, since Haye has been on the scene Wlad has been acting rather quite bizarrely prior to this fight. He looks a broken man, a man who is extremely frustrated and genuinely wants to do a violent job on Haye for his out of the ring antics. Calm, cool, and collected Wlad, has came out of his shell, and has seemingly joined in the war of words with Haye (something that doesn't suit Wlad).

Haye has tried everything in his power to unsettle the K2 camp - most recently claiming Emanuel Steward wants to train him after he deposes of Wlad this Saturday. Steward has shot back and said there is absolute no truth to this. But this is something Haye himself wants, a shook and broken camp. He's practically tried everything in the book to gain an advantage, and Wlad seems erm a little shook, disorientated, worn by Haye. Some say it's tired-some, others find it amusing.

After all is said and done. If Haye is crowned the winner, did his antics help him on his road to victory? Did Wlad get sucked into the plan of Haye?

[S.G.]

We'll only be able to answer this after we've actually seen the fight, but I thinks it's plain to see that the Haye camp are hinging a lot on their plan to discompose Wlad.

That said, I think you're overstating the effect it's had on Wlad so far. He seems fired up and a bit annoyed, but hardly a "broken man". His English has come on leaps and bounds in the last year or so, hence why he appears chattier and more personable than he has previously, and it's what has allowed him to take a more active role in the promotion of the fight this time.