Comments Thread For: Lennox Lewis Brushes Off The Toe, Critiques David Haye

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Former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis was ringside in Hamburg, Germany on Saturday night, and watched Wladimir Klitschko win a lopsided twelve round unanimous decision over David Haye. Lewis, who gave a few pointers to Haye before the fight, felt his countryman executed the wrong game plan, didn't take enough chances and allowed Klitschko to control the distance.

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[asghar]

Lennox is 100% right. Haye is a WBA/ WBC champion not by his hand but from his mouth.

[Dee @ PYP Boxing]

Does Lennox have a screw loose? Wasn't he saying, before the fight, that Haye needed to fight like he did vs Valuev, to win? Isn't that what Haye basically did?

[WladIsTheChamp]

That's two of Gayevid's supporters and contrymen who have said that the little pinky toe shouldn't have effected him... LOL, at Gayevid and his fans...

[FrankieBruno]

Does Lennox have a screw loose? Wasn't he saying, before the fight, that Haye needed to fight like he did vs Valuev, to win? Isn't that what Haye basically did?

No he always said the same thing he is saying now, he said the Valuev tactics would end up on a points loss or a tko

he is right, Haye should have just risked gettin hit by the right, that way he had a chance to counter

Lennox is basically giving us an insight how one would beat himself as he has similar tactics to Wlad

[Pinoy4ever]

Lennox Lewis is right, he could even make a comeback and do it better than Haye against Wlad.

[edgarg]

It has always struck me, but never more than ov er this "FIGHT" that the woods are full of former pugs explaining how the loser "shudda done dis and shudda done dat" etc.

No one seems to remember that these VERY SAME fighters all needed (EVERY ONE OF THEM) their own trainers to devise and plan a STRATEGY and set of TACTICS for their own fights, because they weren't capable of doing it for themselves.

Suddenly they are all expert stratagists and tacticians, even better than the unequalled Great Napoleon............ (I exclude Hannibal Barca).

I get sick of reading them and barely gloss over them depending on the headline.

[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."

[adp023]

Holyfield said the best strategy. Get inside like he did against Lewis. The problem is that Haye doesn't have 1/4 of the boxing skills Holyfield had.

[spoonwars]

Holyfield said the best strategy. Get inside like he did against Lewis. The problem is that Haye doesn't have 1/4 of the boxing skills Holyfield had.

you mean 1/4 the head

if i were lennox i'd be pissed as hell to for the whole "haye make me wait" stint