Haye - Say's I talked the talk, but I didn't walk the walk!!

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Who did the british commentary?

Jim Watt and Jon Rawling had Wlad by a landslide.

It seems like they weren't as pathetically juvenile as HBO though.

Watt was ok? I thought you Brits didn't like him.

I am very interested in Steve Bunce's take on "Toegate" since he's Haye's lickspittle.

They gave Wlad credit for being a brilliant boxer instead of acting like beavis and butthead making fun of Haye.

You would have enjoyed the British broadcast. Trust me.

True, they were mocking Haye an awful lot. Understandable, but these guys are supposed to be pros, not guys like us.

They were more critical of Haye than of any fighter in any fight I can recall seeing. However, I think they were pretty much voicing the opinions of their viewers. This was the first decent heavyweight unification fight in what - a decade? Boxing fans we're excited and it looked like there was an exciting, athletic, and hard-hitting fighter who could break the Klitschko's stranglehold on the division.

Haye told anyone who would listen about how he was going to bring excitement back into the HW division, how he was going to relentlessly attack Wlad until he stopped him, and his actions in the ring proved him to be a hypocrite and liar. Now, are any hardcore boxing fans surprised that a boxer ran his mouth about being exciting and pursuing a KO and then ended up fighting in a boring and ridiculously negative way? Not at all, but it leaves that fighter open to a ton of criticism and I feel that most of it was warranted.

The sad thing is, I think that the last rounds showed that Haye might well have beaten Klitschko if he had committed himself to attacking and throwing more than 1 punch at a time (of course he might have ended up TKO'd himself, but he would have won over a lot of fans), but it was too little too late.