Klitschko Jabs His Way To One-Sided Victory - Doghouse Boxing News Report

Klitschko Jabs His Way To One-Sided Victory

By Daniel Miltz (July 5, 2011) Doghouse Boxing (Photo © Yuriy Nesterenko)
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Despite the weather at the Imtech-Arena, Altona, Hamburg, Germany being horrendous the fight went on as scheduled. Wladimir Klitschko beat Britain’s David Haye in a unanimous points decision on Saturday to add the WBA heavyweight title to his three other belts and complete his family’s domination of the division.

The titles that were up to complete the unification were the …”International Boxing Federation Heavyweight Title (10th defense by Klitschko); World Boxing Association Super World Heavyweight Title (3rd defense by Haye); World Boxing Organization Heavyweight Title (6th defense by Klitschko); International Boxing Organization Heavyweight Title (10th defense by Klitschko) and also The Ring Magazine Heavyweight Title (3rd defense by Klitschko).” (Boxrec.com)

Wladimir Klitschko (55-3- 49 KOs) who entered as the # 5 pound-for-pound fighter and # 1 heavyweight in the world according to The Ring Magazine - scored a one-sided twelve round unanimous decision over cautious WBA champion David Haye (25-1- 23 KOs).

The first four rounds seemed to be all tactical, no real action. Haye throwing wild haymakers, while Klitschko systematically jabbing and clipping with his left hand down and circling around the ring

Haye did take round three with some connects that woke Klitschko up. He landed a left hand with roughly a minute left in the round.

Haye’s punch output just was not high enough to win rounds, especially on his opponent's home turf. But, that's all it was. In round five, Haye was fighting an all defensive fight. Yet, he was jerking and weaving throughout the fight with his hands down and flopping to the canvas, which made referee Genaro Rodriguez deduct a point from Klitschko, thinking he was pushing Haye down.

The Gladiator like Klitschko landed a nice punch early in round seven that woke up the 50,000 plus in attendance.

Shortly thereafter, David Haye tumbled to the mat again after Klitschko lightly pushed him behind the head . By round nine, Haye was lunging and flopping to the canvas more than the referee could handle. Tired of all the silly manuevers by Haye, the referee gave him an eight count in round eleven when he purposely flopped again.

At ringside, commentator Larry Merchant told his partners Jim Lampley and Roy Jones, Jr. that “this fight is a waste of time,” and later on during the fight he said "to wake him up" when the fight starts!

David Haye stated in the pre-fight buildup: "He's a fraud and I'm good at exposing frauds... Here's my time to prove it. I'm in good shape, so for the first time he's fighting someone healthy. Normally he tries to pick people who are injured or coming off long layoffs. This time he's got a prime athlete at his peak. I believe the people he's fought make him look spectacular, from the fact that he wears big shoulder pads in his gowns to the fact that he picks the guys who fit his style perfectly. I'm not fooled by it... When the going gets tough, he gets going towards the canvas."

Haye's trash talk is an embarrassment, whereas Wladimir seems a true gentleman and great advocate for the sport. Haye sure didn't live up to his pre-fight asessment of how he is going to destroy his opponent. In preparation for the bout, Haye primarily sparred with the 6'8 and then-unbeaten David

Haye signed to fight Wladimir in June 2009, but pulled out shortly before the fight. Later in 2009, he negotiated a deal with Vitali Klitschko, but did not sign the contract he had agreed to and instead secretly negotiated to face title holder Nikolay Valuev. Haye eventually outpointed to claim the WBA Heavyweight Title. Then much later down the line, Klitschko and Haye agreed to a 50-50 split of the purse and Haye was allotted 7000 seats at the venue.

After the fight, Klitschko stated: "He was very cautious, he was very difficult to hit. Just like Ibragimov. I really didn't get challenged in the ring offensively. You know, like 'Let's fight!'. Instead he was like all of them, like all of my recent opponents. I would have loved to have celebrated my 50th knockout."

Leading up to thr fight with heavyweight great Wladimir Klitschko, David Haye was claiming that he would retire after this year. And it couldn't come a moment too soon.

David Haye in recent weeks had over hyped the match. But after his loss, he told a news source that he had a broken toe. A source of ‘Miltz Boxing News’ says the ‘Bleacher Report’ calls the match “even more disappointing than Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley,” which went in a similar direction.

In my opinion, I"m glad this fight wasn't on PPV in the United States.

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