By William Mackay: Complaining afterwards about a broken toe, which he had sustained – he said – three weeks before the fight, David Haye (25-2, 23 Ko’s) was easily beaten by IBF/WBO and now WBA heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (56-3, 49 KO’s) by a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision at the Imtech Arena in Hamburg, Germany.

The final judge’s scores were 118-108, 117-109 and 116-110, all for Wladimir. Haye took few chances and basically flopped around the canvas, slipping and falling repeatedly and looking tired as he would get up each time.

The referee Genaro Rodriguez seemed to tire of Haye’s flopping and ruled one of his flops as a knockdown in the 11th round. It hardly mattered, though, because Haye was just getting dominated in the fight by Wladimir’s jabs and wasn’t doing anything to really win the fight. Like in Haye’s other fights, his offense consisted of Haye throwing pot shots occasionally and using a lot of circular movement and feints.

That kind of thing may work against limited fighters or the older ones that Haye been fighting since he moved up in weight to the heavyweight division, but Wladimir had no problems negating Haye’s pot shots and out-working him.

Wladimir used a lot of pressure to take the fight to Haye, and this seemed to make Haye nervous. He wasn’t able to get into his game because he had been too accustomed to being the one attacking in his other fights and didn’t seem to know how to react to Wladimir’s pressure.

With this win the Klitschko brothers now have all four of the heavyweight titles in their possession. It’s doubtful that Wladimir and Haye will mix it up again, even though Haye was quick with the injury excuse after the fight.

It might be interesting to see what Vitali Klitschko would do with Haye, but for that fight to happen Haye would have to forgo his October retirement and do a lot of explaining in the media why he deserves a fight with Vitali after this awful performance against Wladimir. Haye would have to really do a convincing job of making people believe that the Wladimir fight would have had a different outcome had he not injured his toe.

Wladimir won his 14th consecutive fight and it’s unclear who is left for him to fight. Perhaps David Price or Deontay Wilder, two of the larger heavyweights in the division or maybe Robert Helenius.

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