Klitschko vs. Haye, anybody into this HWT title fight?

If it's on "free" HBO, I MIGHT check it out. If it's PPV, zippy chance.

 

Used to be the heavyweight division would drive boxing. Ali. Frazier. Foreman. Tyson. Holyfield. Holmes. Now its ... meh. After Pacquiao and Mayweather, where are the engaging personalities such as those listed?

 

Interesting interpretation of the sport FH, you are on target. But this fight is not fixed, this is one of the true fights where it will be real.

Oh my...is that Dick Enberg in the house?

 

The Klitschkos and Haye are engaging personalities. Klitschkos are like Federer, very classy gentleman but absolute killers in the ring. There has been no colorful American to antagonize them but Haye, from England, certainly has annoyed the Klitschkos. He even had t shirts made up holding their severed heads. He has talked all kinds of ghetto trash about what he will do to them. It's the perfect good guy vs. bad guy set up, this is now a huge grudge fight with bad blood and tension. But America has largely ignored the Klitschko brothers and have not promoted Haye so this event is under the radar here in the US. But this event has all the ingredients to be a historic event. Yes, it's on HBO on Sat. (not PPV)

 

Definitely not bro. That was a Don King set up garbage fight. This is the real deal, two guys who hate each other, two great athletes in top condition, not two overweight hwts who knew they were going to be cheated out of much of their paychecks by their unscrupulous promoter and didn't care to give even a 50% effort.

 

If Dick Enberg were here he'd grab you by the lapels and shake you very hard for comparing this fight to Ali/Frazier. Very very hard indeed.

 

It is free on HBO. Live and early Saturday morning, so it will make for a very strange boxing after dark. At least I guess its live.

And I wasn't into the fight until I saw the Max Kellerman HBO show where he interviews both of them. The Haye guy, he's a little umm something. They started talking smack and things got intense, then it got weird. Haye said he had a boner because he thought Klitschko was going to take a swing at him.

 

Haye has simultaneously been ducking the fight in private but talking lots of game in public, at least according to Dan Rafael's reporting on ESPN.com.

 

MC: I was at the press conf three days before that fight at MSG. Grant was so nervous and shaky and could barely talk. His words were almost incoherent. It was clear he had no self-belief and was totally overwhelmed by Lewis and the moment. HBO wanted to market and promote Grant as the next big thing but Lewis, one of the top 3 greatest of all time, was in his prime then and took care of business.

 

Jay that was HBO's Face Off. That was absolutely fantastic. Kellerman does a great job with those, they are reminiscent of the old Ali and Frazier appearances on Mike Douglas and Dick Cavett.

Yes, Haye is totally spooked by Klitschko and it was quite clear on that episode of Face Off.