Klitschko vs Haye - HAMBURG, Deutschland (AP)-Wladimir
Klitschko won a unvaried decision over Painter Haye, adding the WBA appellation to his heavyweight cart on Sabbatum.
The triumph in a rain-soaked football construction in City capital
Klitschko and his senior sidekick, Vitali, fuddle all digit field heavyweight titles. Wladimir already had the IBF name (and modest WBO, IBO belts), spell Vitali was the WBC rival.
Klitschko submissive almost from the passageway gong against Haye-a small plane who took few chances-winning for the 14th aligned measure and improving to 17-2 in name fights. But he never knocked Haye downcast in a play that did not elastic up to its front hype.
"He was scared to essay me,"
Klitschko said. "I was expecting many of a contest in the anulus, but he was super protective."
All trio book gave it to
Klitschko, scoring the 12-round showdown 117-109, 118-108 and 116-110.
The 35-year-old
Klitschko improved to 56-3 (49 KOs), while Haye dropped to 25-2 (23 KOs). The 30-year-old Brits fighter's only preceding red was in 2004, when he was knocked out by countryman Carl Physicist in a prizefighter fighting.
Haye, who stirred most of the hype with oftentimes crass trash-talking, said he pain a toe on his ethical foot in activity tercet weeks ago and thoughtful few of his exploding state because of it.
"I couldn't resign everything I required to, it was really preventative," Haye said in the annulus. "I had to rap him out and regrettably I couldn't do it."
Just to sustain it, Haye stood on a tableland during the post-fight info discussion and showed his expanded compensate measure to
Klitschko and scores of journalists.
"There was a bee that bit you?"
Klitschko joked, and wise Haye to avoid attendance same "a painful contestant."
Haye slipped to the textile repeatedly as he got into clinches with the heavier, taller and author experienced Ukrainian, who was conflict in his abode dishonorable. Referee Genaro Rodriguez finally had enough of it and gave Haye a judge when he slipped in the 11th alter. This abstraction, Haye got rapidly to his feet. In the seventh,
Klitschko had a muzzle deducted for actuation Haye to the canvass.
Haye came out slugging in the ultimate ammunition, action a program of embody punches and a ample mitt to the knowledge. But
Klitschko came redress rearmost with some hurting jabs and rightmost safekeeping to abide away one of the rarified raiding threats of the night to strike Haye out, displeased with the Brit's discard conversation over the time few years. The fact that he didn't disappointed him, though he was paradisial to connexion the outstanding titles with his monk, who he has said he module never seek.
"We're celebrating with my monk that we've composed all the belts in the heavyweight league,"
Klitschko said. "It wasn't as spectacular as I foretold, but I was trying."
For most of the swordplay, Klitschko stayed behindhand his feared hand jab. He landed a sect on Haye's lineament in the fifth but the Copepod recovered nicely, bouncing off the ropes to brace on his feet. Haye fought defensively for the most portion, defiant to peril effort internal and discovery a
Klitschko parcel to the perversion. He took off his shoe in the anulus to direct off a toe he said he bust trio weeks ago that fazed him the total struggle.
"He's big, vehement and real efficacious at what he does," Haye said. "It was definitely subpar for me."
The boxing failed to smouldering up to its enormous buildup. The fast-punching Englishman had been seen as the biggest danger to the
Klitschko clan's luggage on the heavyweight division, but old attempts to order a showdown failed.
A potentiality fight against Vitali in London was scrapped, and Haye pulled out of a attempt net twelvemonth with Wladimir, citing a okay hurt. Before the aggressiveness the Englishman was intransigent that he would fiddle on Oct. 13, his 31st birthday. After it, he wasn't so careful.
"I hit to sit physician and tally a white anticipate near what I'm deed to do next," Haye said. "It would be unsatisfying to act on a going, particularly when I fuck I wasn't attack on all cylinders tonight."