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

[El Kabong]

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

[Gandalf]

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

They bought the Audley Harrison fight and Haye was seemingly the bookies favourite to win this one. Never put anything past the Brits.

[AdamGB]

Would you like a rematch Lyle? Presumably you'd like to see Haye stopped because you dislike him?

Surely if you dislike Haye so much and were upset by his trash talking you'd love to see Wlad actually punish him for it?

I get the feeling you're probably satisfied that Wlad made it through the fight in one piece with a very lackluster UD and you'd be more than happy it gets left at that.

(Don't worry, you don't have to admit it! I wouldn't expect you to )

[Fenster]

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

They bought the Audley Harrison fight and Haye was seemingly the bookies favourite to win this one. Never put anything past the Brits.

That's totally wrong.

If Wlad EVER started that fight as underdog I would currently be posting from a beach in Barbados. I am not.

[Gandalf]

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

They bought the Audley Harrison fight and Haye was seemingly the bookies favourite to win this one. Never put anything past the Brits.

That's totally wrong.

If Wlad EVER started that fight as underdog I would currently be posting from a beach in Barbados. I am not.

I simply went on the HBO commentary which is what they said. Obviously I don't know the real odds myself whence the seemingly part.

[AdamGB]

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

They bought the Audley Harrison fight and Haye was seemingly the bookies favourite to win this one. Never put anything past the Brits.

That's totally wrong.

If Wlad EVER started that fight as underdog I would currently be posting from a beach in Barbados. I am not.

I'd have put enough on it to net a nice holiday or 3!
(but not my house... if I did haye would have bloody landed a KO punch! the dick! )

[Mars_ax]

Haye's always been a realist. Some people are so easily fooled by hype and literally take bullshit speak to heart. Amazing really in this day and age.

Seems like many fans thought they were gonna see a Rocky fight because of the promotion. Hilarious.

I don't know about taking it to heart, and most fans with half a fucking brain knew it was bullshit, but let's not lose sight of the fact that Haye spewed a ton shit before the fight about how he was going to destroy/annihilate Wlad.
It's one thing to talk shit, then back it up, but in Haye's case it ended up making him look like fool/clown/fraud. I thought Haye was a pretentious douche before this fight and his performance in the fight just confirmed it.

Haye agrees with you. He knew EXACTLY what he was letting himself in for.

He said he didn't walk the walk after talking the talk so understands the criticism.

You DEFINITELY took it to heart. You hated him before and now hate him even more. You should try to not get so emotionally involved with this fight lark.

Get real Fenster, Haye isn't worth the effort it would take to "hate" him, and WTF is "emotionally involved" supposed to mean? Geezuz man, get a fucking life dude.
Just saying, Haye has shown what a piece of shit he is, before, during and after this fight, and he's continuing to act like a douche in this interview.

That is all sir..

[El Kabong]

Would you like a rematch Lyle? Presumably you'd like to see Haye stopped because you dislike him?

Surely if you dislike Haye so much and were upset by his trash talking you'd love to see Wlad actually punish him for it?

I get the feeling you're probably satisfied that Wlad made it through the fight in one piece with a very lackluster UD and you'd be more than happy it gets left at that.

(Don't worry, you don't have to admit it! I wouldn't expect you to )

I'd like to see Haye stopped, but with a healthy toe he'll just run more.

What else does Wlad have to prove vs Haye? He outboxed him and although he tried to stalk Haye down and bait him in it just didn't happen.

Would I "like" to watch another fight like that? No....no matter who is involved.

[Fenster]

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

They bought the Audley Harrison fight and Haye was seemingly the bookies favourite to win this one. Never put anything past the Brits.

That's totally wrong.

If Wlad EVER started that fight as underdog I would currently be posting from a beach in Barbados. I am not.

I simply went on the HBO commentary which is what they said. Obviously I don't know the real odds myself whence the seemingly part.

The HBO commentary constantly get things wrong. They are embarrassing. They always sound like pathetic internet nerds (barring the pro's/trainers that work for them).

They thought Calzaghe was floored by Eubank during the Roy fight. Dumb fuckers can't even take a minute to research the fighters they're covering on youtube. Pathetic.

[El Kabong]

Who did the british commentary?

[AdamGB]

But you'd like to see Wlad completely destroy a guy who trash talked him constantly and disprespected him in a completely tasteless manner right?

I know you wouldn't want to see Wlad do just enough in each round to keep his man at bay score a UD... but you'd love to see a fight where he was on a seek and destroy mission to completely crush a man who wasn't anywhere near his league and who had disrespected him.

Right? You want fighters to show exactly what they are worth and back their own words up after all.

[El Kabong]

But you'd like to see Wlad completely destroy a guy who trash talked him constantly and disprespected him in a completely tasteless manner right?

I know you wouldn't want to see Wlad do just enough in each round to keep his man at bay score a UD... but you'd love to see a fight where he was on a seek and destroy mission to completely crush a man who wasn't anywhere near his league and who had disrespected him.

Right? You want fighters to show exactly what they are worth and back their own words up after all.

Of course I wanted Wlad to KO Haye, but Haye fought such a negative fight it made it difficult for Wlad to land clean. I don't think a rematch would solve anything.

I was disappointed there was no KO, Wlad was disappointed there was no KO, but Haye didn't earn a rematch and I wouldn't want to watch it.

[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.

[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

[Gandalf]

I agree a rematch would be pointless. The gap between the two was immense and Haye threw something like 23 punches a round, he was far below anything needed to compete on Wlad's level. He just isn't a very good HW. A fight against the elite has shown us where Haye really is.