Just rewatched Wlad vs. Haye.

**MindBat** · 07-05-2011, 11:38 PM

You saw the same fight I saw. Most Haye haters got all emotional making it look like Haye was "destroyed" by Wlad. Haye did the best he could against a much bigger man.

Wlad fought very well sticking to his plan. He kept that jab and 1-2 in Haye's face all night long.

**ny123** · 07-05-2011, 11:44 PM

Originally posted by MindBat

You saw the same fight I saw. Most Haye haters got all emotional making it look like Haye was "destroyed" by Wlad. Haye did the best he could against a much bigger man.

Wlad fought very well sticking to his plan. He kept that jab and 1-2 in Haye's face all night long.

After watching its live I was very dissapointed but after watching it again it wasn't nearly as bad as I originally thought. The funny thing is before the fight I knew itwould be very tactical and expected that. The only thing that really surprised me was both guys ability to take each others shots.

**vacon04** · 07-05-2011, 11:45 PM

I liked the fight, of course I like Wlad so a lot of guys will say that's the only reason why I liked it, but the fact is that it was a very tense fight, you couldn't tell if something was going to happen next, and because both guys had KO power you could say that at any moment with just one shot any guy could be KOd.

**uoykcuf** · 07-05-2011, 11:49 PM

I liked the fight, I like watching Haye run around like a girl and throw wild-hayemakers. That was such an intelligent fighting strategy.

**-Kev-** · 07-05-2011, 11:51 PM

Finally a couple of people who see how I see it.

People are exaggerating because they were expecting to see Gatti-Ward 4.

Very tactical fight, yes. But did I see Haye trying his best, yes I did. But like Malignaggi said, people need to credit Wlad, instead of bashing Haye. Haye DID try. It's a lot different when you're the fighter, easy for fans to bash fights since they're only watching.

I only saw it once, live on HBO, and probably won't watch it again[doesn't matter how good a fight is, I don't re-watch it after a couple of months even years go by], and it only took me that one time to know Haye did try.

**LA_2_Vegas** · 07-05-2011, 11:52 PM

Originally posted by ny123

Call me crazy but the fight wasn't that bad. Both guys took flush shots and stood up pretty well and the fight was at a very high speed and very tactical. I wouldn't mind watching Haye against Vitaly or even better with a guy like Adamek or Arreola.

appreciate you posting this, i felt like this the first time around. i liked the fight and I wish it had more action for the casual fans and for us too, but personally i still enjoyed it.

**RichCCFC** · 07-06-2011, 12:00 AM

I enjoyed it too!

Watch English commentary and not HBO, more emotion.

**ny123** · 07-06-2011, 12:01 AM

I think the announcers for HBO especially Merchant helped to make the fight seem worse than it really was. I know it wasn't action packed and thats not their fault but imo it was better than they gave it credit for.

**Spray_resistant** · 07-06-2011, 12:03 AM

Yeah it wasn't too bad, I think myself and most ppl expected a ko at the end and felt like they got a handy J that someone didn't follow through on.

Just rewatched Wlad vs. Haye.