I agree it would have been better for Haye to have fought someone more highly ranked then we would have had a better idea how he would do against Wlad. But I think it has been well said in this thread that the divide between the K brothers and the rest of the pack is pretty wide. I was around during the 1970s when the round robin went on when Ali, Frazier, Norton, Foreman and Shavers tooks turns beating the crap out of each other and I just don't see the rivalries being set up (unless you count the grand trllogy of Ruiz-Holyfield,, excuse while I gag on a hair ball).

I guess we'll have to wait for Wlad to run into another Corrie Sanders or Vitali to start breaking down again. Not to make fun of Vitali, he's a great fighter, just so injury prone probably from those years in the amateurs.