Haye fails to live up to hype

WHILE David Haye was still spewing excuses in Hamburg a joke started swirling social networking sites that Wladimir Klitschko was going to have a tee-shirt mocked up showing him holding up his vanquished opponent’s severed toe.

Seldom have a fighter’s pre-fight boasts been so thoroughly ridiculed than they were on Saturday night, both by Haye’s inept tactical performance and his pitiful attempts to minimise the damage which followed.

Throughout history, fighters have been defined by the context of the pedestals upon which they prop themselves. Muhammad Ali declared himself ’The Greatest’, then went to Zaire and Manila and proved it.