It was mostly shadow-boxing till Round 12.
What a yawn!
Haye’s speed was good and his chin stood up well.
But Klitschko won on points.
A tedious contest was won comfortably by the bigger man
But the winner’s face was battered while Haye hardly had a mark on him.
Commentator Jim Watt said, “That was Klitschko’s best fight”
And I said, “If that was his best fight, I’m glad I didn’t see any of the others.”
As I’ve noted before, more than once, there are no real boxers these days.
OK, a world title fight between two 17-stone men would have been interesting.
And a fight between two 15-stone men would have been worth watching.
Haye is not a heavyweight.
A decent effort. But he had no chance.
We knew that Haye had not sparred for three weeks, which sounded very strange to me.We didn’t know why.
After losing, Haye showed his broken toe to the camera.
He broke it three weeks ago. How? I missed how it happened.
Haye said he leads off his right foot to throw the haymaker, but couldn’t launch his right hander fast enough because of the broken toe.
Why not hit the Ukrainian’s body more?
Instead of being obsessed by a chin he could never reach?
If Haye had attacked his body more, as Barry McGuigan used to do against bigger fighters, he’d have brought Klitschko’s guard down. He would have been pushed to the canvas more often, though.
I watched it in HD on a 42″ plasma screen round at Tony’s.
Disgusted, Tony said, “What a disappointing fight ! We’ve waited three years for this!”