By Ryan Brigdale: Has Adam Booth lost his mind or has he excelled himself yet again in the mind game warfare he has become accustomed to over his training/managerial career.

Many of you may be thinking what on earth I am going on about. Allow me to explain.

Recently Booth took part in an in depth discussion with journalist Steve Bunce regarding George Groves’ artistic performance in narrowly defeating James DeGale. After listening to Booth speaking on Steve Bunces’ weekly boxing hour on BBC radio London I couldn’t help thinking that he had seriously lost the plot.

Booth stated that in the build up to the Groves’ Degale fight, he had “watched videos for hours” to see what was the best approach to “nullify” DeGales’ style.

“If you watch James he never throws his right unless it’s a counter punch, or if his left jab has touched something first”

I can’t argue with that statement, I don’t think anybody could, it was his next statement that puzzled me.

“We knew if we worked on George’s footwork, stopped James throwing that jab, and didn’t allow him to throw a counter punch we would win the fight, that’s what we did”

IF I was Booth, I would attempt implement to the same game plan against Wladimir as what Groves did with DeGale, it’s not rocket science. We all know that Wlad hides behind his jab, he has done for the best part of two decades. It’s an old saying that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but fight fans beware an old dog can still bite.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Klitschko enters this fight with a different outlook, a different style, in the best shape of his career and faster than ever. He’s not the hardest puncher in the world never has been but we all know David’s chin isn’t the strongest and attempting to duck and dive for 12 rounds and pick Wladimir off comes with two massive risks, He gets caught and goes down, or Haye looses on points because the judges see Wladimir being the ‘busier’ boxer of the two.

Now please forgive me but if ANY of the Klitschko camp listened to that interview, they must be rubbing their hands with sheer delight, as they are now fully aware on how David Haye plans to attempt to dismantle Wladimir in Hamburg on July 2nd.

In Adam’s defence he has always been quite shrewd in the build up to fights in the past so why change that now? Is he super confident in Haye’s ability? Has he said it not realising the possible consequences? Or does he think that what he has said makes no difference as Wladimir and his camp already knew what to expect in Hamburg?

Or is Haye going to change his style? Is there a plan B up Booth’s sleeve that we are unaware of. Is Haye going to come out all guns blazing like he did early doors against an over the hill John Ruiz? Like he did against Audley Harrison? Or follow the cat and mouse boxing mentality like he did against former champion Nikolay Valuev?

Granted there a lot of unanswered questions at the moment, and there will be over the next three weeks. I just hope that this fight matches the hype, and build up it has been given by fight fans and media alike since Haye made the leap from cruiserweight to the heavyweight division, because I am certain that all that read this will agree WE need it to.