Quote Originally Posted by captainanddew View Post
I've played sports with a broken toe. It isn't fun, but if you are going to play, you play. You don't bitch about it later.


Haye's toe wasn't his problem. it was his heart. He pulled an Ibragimov by refusing to try to win. He should be ashamed.
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Just to put Haye's toe injury in perspective, Adamek broke his nose a few weeks or so before the war he had with Paul Briggs, which took him out of sparring in preparation for the fight, and the nose began to bleed profusely pretty much right after the fight began. Adamek, however, went into the fight with a broken nose and then afterward never blamed his performance on the broken nose.

http://www.fightwriter.com/tomasz-adamek-vs-paul-briggs