By Scott Gilfoid: We just saw a perfect example last Saturday night of what happens when you take a wild fighter that throws desperate haymakers all night long and put them in with a skilled fighter like WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KO’s). What we saw was Ward easily getting out of the way of Abraham’s wild home run punches and picking him off all night long with jabs and right hands and beating him with ease by a wide 12 round decision at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California.

Now we have another Abraham-like fighter in WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (25-1, 23 KO’s) who is going to try his same Abraham type tricks against arguably the best heavyweight in the division in IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (55-3, 49 KO’s) on July 2nd at the Imtech Arena in Hamburg, Germany. Haye doesn’t really throw combinations unless he has an opponent hurt and he doesn’t throw jabs either.

Haye’s whole game is identical to Abraham’s. Haye throws looping right hands and left hooks and looks for a knockout with every punch. Like Abraham, Haye throws one punch at a time and like him, he has a very low work rate, including stamina problems. If Haye is forced to fight hard, he runs out of gas by the 5th or 6th rounds. Since he’s mostly fighting over-matched old guys since he moved up to the heavyweight division in 2008, Haye has been able to get away with fighting at a snail’s pace in his fights. No one presses him because he’s been fighting guys that are near retirement age.

Haye is going to be taking his Abraham-eque game and trying to beat Wladimir with it on July 2nd. This is going to be an even worse mismatch than Abraham vs. Ward. Without any boxing skills to speak of, Haye’s chances of winning are minimal, coming to whether he can score a knockout with a Abraham like right hand. Since Haye telegraphs his shots and doesn’t throw jabs, he’s going to get slaughtered. It’s going to be like taking an EBU or British level heavyweight champion and putting them in with a world champion. It’s not going to go well for Haye, believe me. Look for Wladmir to take Haye out in four or five rounds.