Nope, he's been judged by what he's done and the route he's taken as a HW.
Haye's world falls down on Saturday night when Klitschko comes out of his corner.
I'll be forthcoming, as you know I am MiB, I'm not impressed nor excited by Haye's route to this fight, Valuev fight = boring, Ruiz all be it a mandatory, he could have taken him out earlier and yes, the choice to fight Harrison was laughable and a complete farce as a spectacle,
but,
The fact remains, he is now where he set put to get and where the fans wanted his HW route to lead, so i'm dis-regarding his previous HW exploits and hope he proves a lot of people wrong Saturday night, can he do it?? I'm 50/50 but I certainly hope so.
win or lose I think Wlad and Steward are going to part ways after this fight
How can you have a working relation when your trainer is soo infatuated with your opponent
Mad the way people are writing Haye off, in fact it's laughable. They judge him by what he says and does outside the ring which is naive.
He's a real bad man once hes in the ring and you know him and booth will have an excellent gameplan going into the fight. Booth is obscenely underrated as a trainer, he's a real student of the game.
2 words, speed kills.
Haye in 3, brutal. Vitali in tears again
Haye is nervous considering this is the biggest fight of career. Most boxers ARE nervous coming into a super fight. Wlad also said it best, fighters that looked confident as ever coming into a fight got KO'd while a fighter who looked unconfident DESTROYED the other fighter, so it doesn't mean much.
I relate it to Public Speaking, before the Speech...your nervous. But once you do it, that nervousness goes away.
Most prime Tyson fights and Bradley-Alexander i think were two noticeable examples of the scared figher losing. But Wlad admitted he was nervous and that if you weren't nervous for anything, you wouldn't train.
Plus Freedom, its mindgames....don't look too much into it...Haye's doing it intentionally to get to Wlad. If you notice, Wlad does want to control things("Your interrupting me again" LOL in the HBO face off) to where Haye not letting him is getting to him.
What I find ironic is that Stewart seems to like Haye quite a bit..lol. He seems like he doesn't even want to train Wlad much anymore and is bored considering Wlad wanted all things done his way and that Wlad is safety first.
I haven't seen Stewart this excited for a Wlad fight in a LONG time.
I'm sure Haye is nervous, and I'm sure Wlad is nervous. Who wouldn't be? Such an important fight for both of them.
How they look at press conferences and stuff like that don't mean **** though. Can't wait for the fight!