Has Haye Gotten Inside Wladimir’s Head?
April 16th, 2009
By Sean McDaniel: Heavyweight David Haye arrived at today’s news conference in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, wearing a t-shirt with a photo of Wladimir Klitschko and Vitali’s cut off heads in each of Haye’s hands. Wladimir didn’t take the t-shirt gag too well, getting outraged over it and heatedly said “That is terrible. It’s unspeakable, it’s impudent…I want to knock him out in the 1st round.” Haye seemed to be gladdened by Wladimir’s reaction, remarking “When I beat him to bits, he will retire. Vitali will throw in the towel to save you, he will pick you off the floor.”
The ideal fallout from this would be an enraged Wladimir who instead of using his heat and reach to box from the outside, would come straight at Haye in the first round and try to slug it out with him. With Haye’s immense power in each hand, it would be the wrong move for Wladimir to take and he would very likely be knocked out in the 1st or 2nd rounds by Haye.
That’s not that Wladimir wouldn’t have his own chance of scoring an early knockout, but it would favor Haye more because of his much better accuracy with his punches and his better hand speed. His punches would arrive first, especially if Haye can get Wladimir into throwing combinations, and have a good chance of putting the weak-chinned Wladimir down for the count.
More aggressiveness from Wladimir is what Haye’s hoping for, because if Wladimir stays on the outside and fights a safety-first fight by using his long jab and left hooks, Haye will have much fewer chances to land a huge shot unless he takes chances by lunging forward with power shots.
In that case, Haye could get caught from one of Wladimir’s big left hooks on the way and taken out. Haye does better if he can get Wladimir to fight in his space where David will be able to get the maximum amount of power on his shots.
It’s surprising how easily Haye has gotten inside Wladimir’s head, because you would think with all of Wladimir’s pro fights, including his Gold Medal in the 1996 Olympics, Wladimir would be immune to these kinds of mind games. Apparently, he’s not and is seemingly going to pieces with Haye’s constant taunts.
In each of their public meetings, Haye has been able to get the better of Wladimir with taunts and seems to have him afraid when the two lock eyes. Wladimir looks afraid of Haye as if the British heavyweight is going to reach over and belt him any second.
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Getting into Wladimir’s head is a plan that will die on the vine. Haye’s only chance, as some write, is no chance at all. Consider, the champion is not new to the game, he is a veteran heavyweight champion for several years now and a seasoned professional not the type that will cave to the juvenile games of nerds. He has been their and back more than once, this is not the first big job in WK’s career. Haye’s handlers are wasting their time and that of their low IQ boxer with psychodramas that will not pan out. Haye’s only realistic chance of surviving fight night is to stay home.
I think its the only chance haye has. Wlad coming into the fight full of rage, going off his gameplan i think would be better for Haye. He knows what hes doing. I just dont think it will be enough. Wlad by KO before 9th Round
I don’t know – I see this fight as repeat of Wladimir vs Corrie. Doesn’t matter what he’ll do Dave’s gonna get him imo. I’m not that huge fan of Haye btw, and used to try to be Klitshko fan, both of them. I think Wladimir in amateurs fought for my club – Legia Warszawa – and was winning fights for them. But still – I want him out of there. We have more exciting fights in sparring, then his world title scraps. I know he’s effective with all this, and his damn jab i very hard – probably the hardest in boxing. I simply detest this “minimum effort”, “no risk taken” strategies too much. So logically I should root for him, but got tired of it. Half of my family is from the Ukraine, and I used to have little posters, and memorabilia of the brothers. We were talking about them taking over the division very often… but it was before.
I think this is very clever stuff by Haye.
He used this tactic to help get this fight in the 1st place. And he got it.
But then he noticed how irrated it made the always calm Ukranian and made a note of it.
Obviously you have to be honest and say on paper Haye has got little chance in the fight, even me a big Haye fan expects him to struggle with Vlads jab and i predicted Haye would get more and more frustrated at Vlads defensive tactics and get more wild and take more risks trying to land a big shot (which is all he has really) and he would just walk onto someithng big of Vlads.
But i think Haye knows that he has to get Vlad taking some risks to expose himself enough for Haye to get through. And Vlad doesnt do that. But then he is able to drive Vlad potty with his remarks and clothing.
If he can keep winding Vlad up, and wear that T-Shirt on the night when he enters the ring then Vlad COULD be thrown off his game plan which usually does him so well and get him angry and wanting to kill Haye.
Atleast then Vlad will be exposing his chin while trying to knock Haye out.
Smart move by Haye, used it to get the fight and remembered just how it gets in his head even now and will use it to his advantage.
this is just a lot of fun… I’m waiting for more:) Don’t know if your analysis is accurate, but my feeling is it’s going to be quick and crazy. No guarantees whatsoever. Can go either way, and there is a huge probability it’s going to end in 1-2 rounds. My cash goes on David, but won’t be surprised with anything in this one:)