UK BoxRec article: David Haye disappointed his fans

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All time favourites: Tommy Hearns, Mike McCallum, Julian Jackson, Gerald McClellan, Emanuel Augustus



Yep, all black, that's pretty much all I need to know about you and your agenda.


Move along.

[WladIsTheChamp]

Most people I spoke to expected Haye to lose anyway. I said he had no chance, and saw him getting knocked out anytime from the 9th onwards. I also said I support him, and just hope he puts on a good fight, he didn't.

I wouldn't mind so much if he went tooth and nail, and got KOed along the way. Now he's a bit of a laughing stock though. Before the "respect him for stepping in the ring" line, I'd step in there with Wlad for 10 million and just hope he KOes me as quickly as possible, lol.

Seriously, that's what I keep saying. Quit giving the vagina so much credit for stepping in to do his JOB for $10-$20 million. Are you all going to give a guywith a 0-10 record credit for stepping in and taking a fight for two hundred bucks? Probably not. Gayevid does not deserve credit for simply doing his job and getting paid a king's ransom for it, and then putting on a ****ty performance and then making excuses for it - broken little pinky toe from 3 weeks ago. What a flopping vagina.

[The Hammer]

I was in a pub in Cardiff for the fight,

It was 80-20 in favour of Haye.

Everyone got annoyed by Haye.

By the 12th round they wanted Haye to get knocked out.

Haye went into survival mode after his nose was bloodied by a right from Wlad in the 5th.

He was fighting scared in rounds 6,7,8,9,10, & 11. HBO commentators were saying his fans went silent.

He did get desperate and actually try for the KO in the 12th, but then Wlad landed a couple and Haye went back into survival mode for the last two minutes.

[FrankieBruno]

Sorry to break it to the Wlad fans, but Vitali himself said Haye was Wlads "toughest opponent" and a "good fighter", this was right after the fight. Vitali had always said Haye was a bum, but after the fight he had changed his mind

So yes Haye is Wlads most defining fight, his own brother agree's, so who are you small people to disagree?

[The Hammer]

Dan Rafael

"Haye was a toothless tiger, who did nothing to remotely back up his talk. Klitschko, with three inches and 30 pounds on him -- not to mention being better than Haye in every aspect of boxing, with the exception perhaps being speed -- took him apart. He jabbed, threw left hooks and right hands and moved forward throughout the fight. But Haye, who accused Klitschko of being boring, ran away the entire fight and turned in one of the most awful big-fight performances in history.

Before the bout, HBO's Larry Merchant nailed it when said of Haye, "He's blown the trumpet. Now, will he charge?" The answer was a resounding no. Haye was the boring one because he refused to engage. He seemed utterly petrified to taste Klitschko's tremendous power. He was defensive and rarely let his hands go, connecting on a pathetic 72 of an even more pathetic 290 punches (which means he threw an average of just 24 punches per round). Klitschko, meanwhile, stalked him and landed 134 of 509 blows, according to CompuBox statistics."