Just watch any of Ward's fights these days. That how good (or bad) Ottke was. A hometown champ fighting ugly fights getting helped by the ref, then being cheered by his fanatic fans as the second coming of Ali.
did you watch his fight with Thompson he fell into Thompson everytime he punched Did you see the fight at all? Thompson came crashing into Wlad with his head down all the time, hitting Wlad's chest with his head.
Same thing that happens to most of them. They come from a background of being dirt poor, they make enormous sums of money and the only people they have around them are people they pay for the most part. They have no idea how to deal with the kind of money they are making all of a sudden and spend like its never going to end, then it does.This is the norm not the exception, a large percentage of professional athletes end up broke.100% on the spot correct advice. Plus, also remember many boxers come from humble, working-class backgrounds at best. Many with big families. Once the millions roll in the family members will start bringing in business proposals.
"Evander, I cook such good friend chicken. Lets open our own restaurant! It's bound to make a killing"
"Evander, we should open our own real estate development company. Your uncle and cousin could manage it. We're going to rake in millions!"
Needless to say, if you hand your relatives money to "invest" you will likely never see it again.
He will probably disappear much like Ibragimov did too.Yup I am sure he will. Come to survive, not to fight, collect his pay check and disappear forever.
Good Riddance Haye. Nobody needs a guy talking a big game and once in the ring he doesn't wanna man up and risk throwing a punch.
He should retire after he ripped off so many gullible boxing fans. He talked of war and fought like Dirrell. F*** Haye. He stunk out the joint on purpose, just to collect his paycheck.
David Haye threw 200 punches in the biggest fight of his career.
Need anyone say any more?Ibragimov landed 94 on Wlad vs Haye landing 72 on Wlad. Need I say more?
All Haye cared for was not getting knocked out, he landed even LESS than freaking Ibragimov. Disgraceful.
This is the 3rd time Haye ripped of his loyal Brit fans. 3 x 15 quid for a total stinker. Valuev, Harrison .. now a disgraceful showing vs. Wlad where Haye threw next to nothing and refused to engage.
His days as a PPV moneymaker are counted. But what does he care? He just banked big and will probably retire now. He ripped off gullible fans. Good for him.
Did you guys actually expect Haye to stand in front of wlad and just throw hands??? He came, he tried to work to a plan, he fell short and he failed. But in no way did Wlad look great out there himself.We all knew going into the fight that if Haye wants to have even the SLIGHTEST chance then he has to come out guns blazing and try to make this a war from the first bell on. He had to take huge risks and hope he'll land a few money shots to take down Wlad.
But guess what? Haye took ZERO risk. He tried to make Wlad look bad so hard that he forgot he also has to land punches and go on the offensive.
Remember Briggs is on roids for the last 10 years. Lewis has been on a carribean diet of fried chicken, beans and rice with no roids. He'd have trouble against this HGH version of Briggs.
Groves vs. Anderson is about to start. This should be a good fight.To anybody with a boxing brain bigger than a pea this is the real headliner fight. Much more exciting matchup than Haye - Harrison.
Haye's excuses get more ridiculous and downright pathetic every time. This is what like the 4th time Haye doesn't want a fight? But he keeps yapping how he's going to unify the division and writing HW history?
Please. Haye should be ignored from hereon. He was obivously never serious with what he said and he's now just pissing on us boxing fans.
Unified HW Champion Wladimir Klitschko Says He Will Most Likely Fight Haye in 2011 After Povetkin fight.. The link doesn't said that Wlad said that. Wlad did all he could do in order to get a fight done with Haye. Haye disappeared, went into hiding. What else could Wlad possibly do?
If it was up to Wlad he would have fought Haye in 2010, it was Haye decision to ignore Wlad's offer and attempt to get a fight done.
McCall was/is a cocaine and drug addict. He had no business being in the ring. Don King shoudl have been prosecuted for putting him in with Lennox that night.
That win is one of the worst wins in Lewis' careers. Shameful fight. Not Lewis fault, he just did his job, just the circumstances were shameful for boxing as a sport.
other than tyson bout, did u watch his other fights???Lewis generated little excitement and interest prior to the Tyson bout. In fact he was largely hated and ignored by the American HW boxing public in the 90s.