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in fact I never watch it but this fight has got my attention. It won't exactly be a conventional boxing match, the guy's 7ft 2", 7ft fucking 2 :o

But there's too many things that can go wrong, and I think Haye will go out too hard early on, gas out and get worn down by Valuev's massive jab. Given the difficulty of getting decisions in Germany, he's also going to have to knock him out, and I'm not sure he can do that. Holyfield got close to beating Valuev but got cheated out by the judges having done most of the work in a dull fight.

Valuev to win by decision IMO.

Valuev on points or a 7th round haye ko

Half of me thinks Haye is going to get knocked out in the first, and the other things he's gonna chop the Russian beast down. Head says Valuev, heart says Haye - knowing my luck it'll be 12 boring rounds and a Valuev UD.

Not that I know shit about boxing. Hayes' game is going to be about trying to get Valuev to lash out and I just can't see it working.

i've heard all sorts of times, most recently 9.30.

Haye has to imagine himself as fighting the big boss at the end of a level on a video game, going in and giving lots of punches then stepping back in the corner to recover health.

to watch this online?

Too skint for sky box office.

^ or the entire fight, even. highlights makes it sound like football...

Cheers.

are this shit band?

Someone offered up a union of Neanderthal Man and the burly ex-Czech striker Jan Koller.

http://www.rajangan.net/template_live.php?ida=1290

good find.

Triumph of skill over power.

not sure about the overall result. feels like a moral victory though

BOOM.

neither of them deserved anything

All he gave us was a victory, really.
Well done to him, though. Just to go 12 rounds with Goliath takes a huge pair of steel balls.

but I thought that was a pretty dull match. That last round won it deservedly for Haye but I was surprised at how unadventurous he was in the first five rounds. Where was that knockout you promised us all, David?

Boxing experts: was that a relatively poor match? Or am I just being a n00b?

but you can't blame him for being cautious really. He said he hurt his hands in the second round so couldn't go on the attack so had to be cautious.

It was a heavyweight bout. It was a heavyweight bout that engaged the pundits with technically astute tacticality from Haye, and slow moving mechanical jabs from Captain Forehead and his befuddled stomach.

and maybe i was seduced by the personality and the spectacle...but i thought that was real good stuff

i admire someone who has a job to do and does it. It's methodical. It's clinical. Haye probably couldn't knock out a 7ft2 beast...who can? He did what he had to.

It's a lame excuse for uncultured idiots - the same sort who think soccer is boring when bicycle kicks aren't being scored every ten seconds.

Was an intense, amazing fight, fascinating in a lot of ways. The constant fear that Valuev was gonna crush him, the gradual realisation that Haye was just too fast and quick, the spaghetti legs in round twelve...

Funny really as heavyweight clashes are supposed to be quick and exciting (and Haye's next fight against John Ruiz will be exactly that) but this was just proper epic. I had Haye about eight rounds up. Fuck the world, world champion!

was brilliant tonight and moved with speed and reactions of a welterweight, when he rocked Valuev in the 12th the pub i was in erupted in applause, i have no voice left. What more could you want??..... Ok, so a pic of Haye standing over a KO'd Valuev on the front cover of every paper would have been nice but it was never going to happen.