Booth says Haye’s actual weight is 208 lbs, not 212 for Klitschko fight

By Boxing News - 07/02/2011 - Comments

By William Mackay: WBA heavyweight champion David Haye’s trainer Adam Booth said the weigh-in readings for Haye were wrong for yesterday’s weigh-in. Haye came in at 212 lbs, but Booth is saying that Haye’s real weight was 208 lbs. It’s not that big of a difference and really won’t matter much but it looks like Booth is into getting things right. Wladimir weighed in at 242 lbs and will have a sizable weight advantage whether Haye comes in at 208 or 212.

It’s all the same. Haye says he’s going to hit and not get his starting from the first round, and expects to take Wladimir out quite early in the fight. Haye doesn’t want to get hit by Wladimir and doesn’t believe the big Ukrainian will be able to land his powerful jab in this fight. Haye’s strategy of taking away Wladimir’s jab involves using head movement and a lot of lateral ring movement to keep from being a stationary target. Haye may get desperate and charge Wladimir early rather than letting him pick him off with jabs the entire night.

Haye tends to go wild if he gets hit and tries to go all out to stop the threat – at least temporarily. If he’s unable to score a quick knockout, he often tires and becomes ordinary until his batteries are replenished. In the John Ruiz fight, Haye punched himself out early and it took many rounds before he made another serious attack. Haye fights with adrenalin but is unable to keep up the pace if he can’t score a knockout. There’s a real danger here for Haye that if he does this with Wladimir he could wind up getting knocked out himself if he can’t get Wladimir out of there with one of his mad charges. Wladimir will be expecting it and will stay composed and will keep tagging Haye with jabs. The last thing that Haye needs is to punch himself out and be forced to run around the ring while still winded trying to avoid Wladimir’s jabs.



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