By William Mackay: Trainer Emanuel Steward was thoroughly disgusted with the performance from former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye last weekend in his flop-filled 12 round decision loss against IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko in Hamburg, Germany.

Steward says that Haye went into the survival mode as early as the 1st round after getting hit by Wladimir, and basically spent the rest of the fight trying to survive and not get knocked out rather than trying to win. Steward saw the fight as a big fraud on Haye’s part because he didn’t try to win.

Steward said this about Haye at eastsideboxing.com’s “On the Ropes Boxing Radio” program: “Haye was acting like a punk. He was falling down every time he got close to Wladimir, dropping to his knees and looking to the referee.”

“David Haye was totally out of his league with Wladimir, not just because of his size, but the all around professionalism, the experience, the skill level…He was very easy to figure out. I mean it was noting complicated at all.”

Steward is right, of course. Haye spent a good deal of the time flopping to the canvas when Wladimir would get near him to clinch or throw. At first it seemed like a wise move on Haye’s part to avoid having to hold up Wladimir’s weight during a clinch. However, Haye took it too far and started looking to the referee after he would flop, as if he was hoping the referee would continue to take points away from Wladimir after initially taking one point off in the 7th. It was sad, because that’s no way to try and win a fight. It was going to take more than getting two or three flop points for Haye to win this fight because he was so primitive with his fighting style and fighting so timidly.

Steward noted that Haye would fall off balance after he would throw one punches. Steward said the key was to make Haye miss his first shot, and then he would do the rest himself by falling “all over the place.” Steward said that it wasn’t Haye’s nature to be like Mike Tyson and go out and attack Wladimir. Steward said that Haye is intimidated by big guys and looks not to get hit rather than coming in looking to land.