By Dan W: Last night Wladimir Klitschko extended his unbeaten run by beating David Haye impressively by a unanimous decision.

Unarguably one of the most anticipated fights in recent time Wladimir was at his best by his exerting his usual jab jab jab tactic keeping Haye at range and occasionally firing the right hand.

From rounds 1 to 12 Wladimir dictated the fight keeping Haye at range using the jab and moving back whenever Haye looked to throw any sort of punch, by the middle rounds Haye did look gassed and was going to the canvas very easily whenever Wladimir held showing the effects of the pressure being applied. Wladimir went on to fight a brilliant fight some who may say was a career best performance by fighting calmly and picking his shots well resulting in the lop sided decision.

Haye who talked a lot before the fight found out just how hard it really is to topple a Klitschko as he was unable to land the majority of his shots and had to resort to wild lunging punches which missed by quite a bit. Haye did however have rare success and did land some hard overhand rights to the head of Klitschko for example in the 12th round where Haye had his best chance of troubling Wladimir, but it just wasn’t enough.

I was disappointed with the punches Haye threw, I thought the left hook could have been an effective punch which Sam Peter has previously had success with against Wladimir but Haye was just looking for the big right which was for most of the time avoided by Wladimir. I also expected Haye to go southpaw which he showed was a possibility in the open workout last week, but Haye realized fighting Wladimir was a lot tougher than anticipated. After the fight Haye revealed he suffered a fractured toe three weeks ago which was the reason for him stopping sparring a week earlier (go to his twitter page for picture proof) he claims this prevented him throwing his trade mark right hand whilst there is some truth in this it would still be hard to believe Haye could have pulled it off injury free as Wladimir looked so strong and game in the fight.

On a positive note Haye did take some hard right hands very well and did not look worryingly hurt at any point showing his brilliant conditioning and proved he does belong in the ring with a true heavyweight. Furthermore I do believe Haye performed better than the likes of Chagaev, Chambers and Peter, whilst he did get dominated his movement and rare power punches did make Klitschko cautious.

So what now for David Haye? Adam Booth his trainer said Haye will still be retiring in October leaving space for one last fight. A possible rematch or a fight with Vitali? Which I doubt will happen, maybe a British match up with Dereck Chisora? Taking all this into account Haye did not perform injured or not and it will be hard to bounce back from this defeat, Haye now has to rest look at his options and hopefully have one last fight before retirement. As for Wladimir he is now the top heavyweight with no real threat, this fight showed no one can beat a Klitschko apart from themselves when they eventually retire.