By Scott Gilfoid: I’ve studied HBO’s face off with Max Kellerman preview video of Wladimir Klitschko vs. David Haye at least 10 times, and I’ve got to say that Haye looks as scared as a kitten facing a giant doberman pincher. I’ve seen some fighters that have been afraid before, but Haye really takes the cake. I half expected Haye to get up out of his chair and dart out of the room when Wladimir spit out “Shut up.” Haye literally couldn’t meet Wladimir’s eyes and looked like he wanted to dematerialize to another century.

I only saw a small portion of the video, but being something of an expert at the human mind, can see that Haye looks terrified of Wladimir and ready to run for the hills once this fight finally gets underway. I have my doubts about whether Haye will even make it to the fight after seeing this video. I’m expecting Haye to come up with a back ailment any day now and complain that he can’t make the fight. I hope that doesn’t happen, but it’s happened before in the past. Future events cast their shadows before.

Haye looks to me like a teenager getting ready to enter the ring for the first time against a full grown man. Haye just doesn’t look ready for this. You can see it in his eyes. This is like a cash out fight for him. I don’t believe he’s mentally ready and I don’t believe he thinks he can win. He doesn’t look at all confident, and smells of a cash out bout. It’s probably going to be a huge face with a lot of people paying big money thinking it’s going to be an exciting fight but then seeing Haye bite the dust early in a quit job or else see him running all night long trying to protect his head.