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

[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.

[armin]

If I'm wlad I don't give haye a rematch right away no way, let the loss bruise his ego some. Down the road if wlad is still good and hasn't slipped he should offer him a 90-10 split, chances are haye takes it to try and fix his ego...and wlad wins again and haye says he had a stuffy nose after and proceeds to blow a bunch of snot onto the floor to prove to merchant that he really had a stuffy nose

[Shamrock]

Haye is getting a lot of criticism and yeah most of it rightly so. But...

....don't give him stick for saying before the fight that he was gonna win.... WTF is he supposed to say... 'Aw yeah thanks for the opportunity but I'm gonna get beat'

... Haye said he was gonna knock him out - hype - to try and throw Klitchsko of his game plan surely you can see that and didn't think Haye was gonna go toe to toe (no pun intended !!!) with a guy 6 feet 8 and around 2 stone heavier. Jesus I used to talk shit like that when I was just fighting guys from other gyms as an amateur.

.... don't forget Klitshko also said that he was gonna knock Haye out... okay he was more attack minded than normal but at no point did he really go for the kill.

... lay off the crap about the British making excuses.... it's not our fault it's the way we were brought up.... it's because we had to go through two world wars.... because we drink tea... and because we have weak toes

Klitchsko will make Haye sweat over a rematch and rightly so - he's the Champ. who esle though is there.. besides his brother who he won't fight.... Haye will not retire at 30 - despite all the hype he's a fighter and he won't want to go out with that as his last fight - mark my words these two will fight again and hopefully Haye and Booth can come up with a better game plan.

I'll say again I haven't watched the heavyweights for a while because it's been so predictable and I hate the way Klitchsko fights but I've got nothing but respect for him the way he carries himself and the way he makes that shitty style work so effectivley.

He's the Champ - Respect !