Has Haye Talked Himself Into a Beating From Wladimir?
April 23rd, 2009
By Jim Slattengren: Being unusually gifted for gab, David Haye (22-1, 21 KOs) has done quite a job of promoting his June 20th bout with IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (52-3, 46 KOs). In fact, Haye, 28, may have done too good of a job as he’s awoken a sleeping giant in Wladimir and angered the Ukrainian like no other fighter has done before. Haye seems to consider himself as just doing his job by hurling insults at Wladimir to try and promote the fight.
But, by Haye wearing a t-shirt with Vitali’s cut off head in it, and promising to knock him out as well, it’s infuriated Wladimir like nothing else before. Haye believes that this will ultimately help his situation, because an angered Wladimir won’t be thinking clearly and will rush straight in and try to mix it up with Haye in the same way that Enzo Maccarinelli attempted to do last year.
The result, Haye hopes, is that he can catch Wladimir with a big shot and take him out. The opposite may end up happening, though, because if Wladimir fights like he used to earlier in his career when he was a dangerous knockout artist, Haye may find himself getting blasted out in the first or second round by an angry Wladimir.
Wladimir is promising to turn Haye into a “pizza face” on June 20th, which translates into Wladimir jabbing Haye’s face until it busts up and bleeds all over. I’m not so certain that’s what Wladimir is going to do after today’s press conference in New York , in which Haye called Wladimir a “B level” heavyweight. Wladimir seems to mean business now and doesn’t want just to get a slow victory.
He’s probably going to be throwing too hard to win by slow measure, wanting to take Haye’s head off with every punch for his insults of him and his brother. At the same time, Wladimir has to realize that if he lets Haye stick around for too long, he’s going to increase the chance that Haye will be able to catch him with one of his big shots and take him out.
If Wladimir doesn’t see the possibility of Haye scoring a knockout, Wladimir’s trainer Emanuel Steward obviously does. He’s not going to want to let Haye stay in the fight if Wladimir has a chance to take him out and avoid problems.
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Haye is certainly rattling the lions cage thats for sure. Wlad will slowly but surely lose his composure should Haye keep up the trash talk until fight night.
Come June 20th, i dont see Wlad changing whatever gameplan he has, he is talking like he wants to punish Haye slowly, but in reality, he is going to have to go all out because Haye will. I think it will be over quickly, who wins will depend on who takes better advantage of the openings.
Haye will lose inside 6 rounds,i believe this will be wladimirs BIGGEST and BEST defence so far!
hes gonna shock us all….i hope!
Haye has introduced something new into prefight antagonizing that hopefully will not be imitated or worse surpassed by the boxers trying to get in the front of the line for a shot at the champion. Assume this is the wave of the future what will come out of Haye’s cleverness, what must he do to get his next fight? It can only be hoped that Haye’s sick idea does not unleash a tidal wave of imitators that will try to outdo Haye at crudeness and baseness.
Haye will look like an idiot if he gets knocked out.
But at least nobody can say who is going to win the fight!
Its exciting, this is what boxing should be like. Two of the best going head to head, nobody knowing who will win the fight. 50/50 chance!
Haye is a pretty wealthy man, hes going to make a decent pay cheque from this fight, and if he wins he will recieve at least 2 more good pay cheques.
This is a sport, but its also entertainment, people will pay to see Haye fight because its exciting, its entertaining.
He has my respect even if he gets knocked out, its good to see a fighter going after the best of the best.
The british public loved frank bruno, even tho he got beat. Lets hope haye wins tho ey!
Haye needs Vlad to coem out swinging, but i can’t see it. He won’t get dragged into that adn the Pizza Face” comment shows that he is going to draw this out before a late KO.
He won’t make this easy on Haye and will pick him off all night, leaving him bloody and battered. If he keeps his cool, I can’t see how Haye can win.
Thank you Haye for making this fight interesting.
Wlad will have a gameplan and will not let himself fall into Hayes trap of swinging wildy in the first round. Wlad has always struck me as more of a slow starter and that is where Haye is at his most dangerous. Wlad does seem more focused now and Hayes mouthing off (which initially didnt do alot) seems to have woken Wlad up a bit. Haye may well end up cursing the idea of the T-Shirt!
Personally I think Haye is dangerous but he looked sloppy against Barrett despite winning easily. Barrett was a bag of nerves (hence the amazing ring entrance) but Wlad wont be due to his experience at the top of the HW division regardless of peoples opinion of its current state.
Wlad will win this and Im hoping he feeds Haye that T-Shirt! that would be funny
Hayes mouthing off could well make him look an idiot if Vlad blasts him out of there trouble free and quick.
But to have Vlad swingin wildly infront of him gives him alot mroe oppertunitys to land somethng than if Vlad just sits behind his jab.
I think for Haye its a risk but a calculated one.