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

[AdamGB]

wouldn't want to see it again if i'm totally honest... his brother should get the chance to KO Haye but I very much doubt that they want to give him another payday.

Someone said the following to me yesterday and it makes you think... if you where a pro boxer, REALLY belived you had a chance of beating wlad and you had a toe injury... would you have carried on with the fight.

if you where a pro boxer and knew you had no chance of winning and got a toe injury... would you carry on with the fight.

Haye is coming out of this not looking that great and that saddens me as i still don't think he sucked as much as i expected him to.

I think he gets absolutely no money and a hundred times more stick for pulling out (again) with a broken toe then he does for showing up with a broken toe and losing.

if he pulled out with a broken toe or even tried to post pone it then I could have seen the fight never happening to be honest.

[Mars_ax]

wouldn't want to see it again if i'm totally honest... his brother should get the chance to KO Haye but I very much doubt that they want to give him another payday.

Someone said the following to me yesterday and it makes you think... if you where a pro boxer, REALLY belived you had a chance of beating wlad and you had a toe injury... would you have carried on with the fight.

if you where a pro boxer and knew you had no chance of winning and got a toe injury... would you carry on with the fight.

Haye is coming out of this not looking that great and that saddens me as i still don't think he sucked as much as i expected him to.

Haye would have come out a hell of a lot better and gotten more credit if he hadn't talked so much trash before the fight, it just ended up making him look foolish. He could have promoted the fight just as well without all the uncalled for juvenile insults, which I believe actually motivated Wlad.

Just guessing, i'd say Haye is going to have a hard time convincing his fans in the UK and boxing fans in general, that he's a worthy opponent for Wlad again. I wouldn't feel too sad for Haye if I was you Saddo, he likely made $40-$45 million American off this farce of a fight.

cheers

[El Kabong]

Who did the british commentary?

[Fenster]

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.

[El Kabong]

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.

[Mark TKO]

Lets not forget Wlad said haye would be his 50th KO victim in a long and painful night


Haye wasn't kayoed and he certainly didnt look in pain at any stage (apart from his toe of course)

[Fenster]

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.

[Gandalf]

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.

[CFH]

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.

[J_C]

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.

Bunce wrote this article for a newspaper The Independent. I think its a fair summary

Boxing: Klitschko mocks sad Haye after leaving him battered and broken - Others, More Sports - The Independent

[erics44]

i think the rematch with haye would generate more interest than a fight with any of the other top 100 fighters

only ones i can think of that would come close would be adamek and povetkin

so a rematch is a posibility

I agree with booth tho, haye should retire because the klit would take a bit too large a slice of the pie this time

I disagree. You can get a rematch after a hard fought close match, an unfortunate injury which causes the fight to be stopped, or after a shock loss. But if you put forth a half assed effort in the biggest fight of your career then nobody will want to watch you fight ever again.....unless they are British in which case they're willing to buy tragically lame excuses

i dont think so, dont think there are any excuses, not heard one brit say they liked hayes performance or putting the loss down to the toe

i think what you post above is saying is something along the lines of "you should be as gracious in defeat as in victory", which isnt really following its own example