Haye-Wlad - HBO Face Off Video

[Gandalf]

These face offs are interesting, but never really tell us very much. Haye is speaking in his native language and can get his words off sharper, no big deal. Wlad is going to dominate him, unless Haye does his Valuev style routine, in which case we will get a dull Wlad points win.

you might have a point here, wlad might just be looking daft coz they arent talking in russian

To be fair to Wlad, even though he is awkward linguistically, he is seemingly more articulate and insightful than Haye. His English is actually very good. I always take note of boxers who go to the effort of learning English as a second language. It is also interesting to see if they are improving or not. It's easy for Haye to mock Wlad with Borat impressions, but that is just a cheap shot. Wlad speaks better English than Amir Khan.

Wlad also speaks better English than all those chavs in the UK.

He probably does too! I like Wlad the more I hear him.

And look at Haye with the constant "He's shook.....he's shook". No way Wlad makes those kinds of silly errors. Do you possibly mean that "he is shaken"?

Then again you also have Jim Lampley with the constant "Coming up on March three". Have you never heard of ordinal numbers?

Must be a boxing thing with all these weird language forms materialising. They always stand out when I hear them.