After spending £15 on last nights below par fight, I've seriously had enaugh of these two clowns stinking up the biggest heavyweight fight in 10 years. All the mind games, all the bullshit from Hayes side, Booth must be to blame for 50% of it, and he sent his fighter in unprepared and ring rusty to a fight being screened to 50 million people.
David Haye proved last night he has a chin, he took flush punches from who is now, the biggest hitter in the heavyweight division. Yet Booth still wants Haye to retire with this stupid October 13th bet they have.
Haye has so many fights left in him, but with Booth's stupid amount of preparation and pissing about, it basically means Haye is an inexperienced and amateurish heavyweight. Two fights in a year and a half? He could have fought a top contender the week after that bullshit against Audley Harrison. Larry Holmes would fight five times in one year sometimes, while Haye is a part time boxer looking for a payday.
I feel Haye has more of a fight in him, but Booth is holding him back, acting like an over-protective parent. Surely Haye can't go out like this, he's 30 for Christ's sake! Let him carry on, get a new trainer, actually make fights for him for a change. Watching the HBO broadcast, I'm embarrest for British boxing and the sport as a whole, the safety first money making attitude Booth has, it's the sort of thing which could kill the sport I love so much.
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