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[dexter]

Anybody watching Haye v Klitschko tonight? who is your money on?

Klitschko is 1/2 on and Haye 7/4.

I personally hope Haye pulls out a KO.

[Pasha K]

The fight had some nice moments but overall it was nothing special, I mean very very few solid punches landed.

It was the first time a watched a full boxing match in a long long time, and I was actually surprised by the speed of those 2.
Sometimes you watch in MMA a fight between 2 HWs and they are so damn slow, even in K-1 you watch Semmy Schilt and so fucking slow. However these 2 have some very nice speed. Specially Haye, awesome head movement.

Haye was constantly falling down and looking at the ref, I don´t know why he was doing it that often, but he is delusional if he thought that somebody like Vladimir would get distracted by that.

Vladi should have thrown more combinations of 3 or 4 punches, because the entire time he was only jabbing and throwing the right hand.
Haye was in deffensive mood the whole time, he landed 2 or 3 nice punches though.

Nice victory by Klitschko!!

[Kimbo> Rampage]

what a disappointment. but it was probably on me for buying into the hype to begin with, given the past.

[Kemo]

Banging Hayden Panettiere was also a nice victory for Klitschko. Lucky bastard.

[dexter]

Originally Posted by Pashak

Haye was constantly falling down and looking at the ref, I don´t know why he was doing it that often, but he is delusional if he thought that somebody like Vladimir would get distracted by that.

Klitschko often leans on the smaller fighter to make them carry his weight. You've got to remember these guys aren't used to carrying another man's weight (like most mma fighters would be), so whenever Haye had Klitschko's weight on him he dropped to the floor to (a) not bear Klitschko's weight and (b) show the Referee.

If you saw Klitschko v Eddie Chambers he leaned on him so much it took all Chambers' speed and energy away.

The fight was a disappointment though. Haye was just looking for a 1 punch KO without setting it up, and couldn't get past the jab.