David Haye retained the WBA heavyweight title in a third round of Audley Harrison stopped in Manchester.
Harrison crumbled under a barrage of shots, as briefly all-British showdown came alive when the initial opening two rounds in a couple of punches.
Haye, thirty, clinically, by chance, when he paved the age of thirty-nine, his London, after less than eight minutes. Former Olympic champion Harrison, 39, said he was destined to triumph, but landed a single punch.
The battle was marketed as a Best of Enemies with the two former friends met in what was the biggest clash of boxing heavyweight Lennox Lewis in English after beating Frank Bruno in 1993.
But Harrison, who has been criticized for failing to build a promise of his gold medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, he appeared arrogant and resisted just before the fight was stopped one minute and fifty-three seconds into the third round.
Haye told everyone that I would knock out round three As soon as I started to put my fists together the battle was almost over. I hoped he would come out and try to participate a bit more, because I have a good anti-drill, but I told the courage to go past three rounds.
Adam [Booth Coach Hague] was happy with what I did because he knew that I would finally nails. When I have a guy injury, they pass by. The old man struck Harrison, nicknamed
The strategy was to make David Haye in laps, but he surprised me with good shots. I’m disappointed I did not have the chance to show my game plan. I prepared for the victory, went into believing I could win and believed it was my time.
I do not accept that I froze at all, was a little cat and mouse before, but he is a puncher, and so I was always going to be so. I really did not freeze, I’ m not I kind of gung fighter, man traps and I've played my song dance.
Harrison has praised the three-stone weight advantage, and two and a half inch difference in height, but Haye
has been reduced to the chassis to improve its higher speed.
Rambunctious 20 000 sold out the MEN Arena booed Harrison’s atmosphere and the jeers continued to tame the opening round, with Harrison has three left-handed jab that Haye is a solitary image of the body and the occasional extra issues.
The referee Luis Pabon called the fighters and urging them to fight in the second round, but at least have been given a hard right from the start, and two more later in the session before the game exploded in the third.
Has he jumped by a right hand injury and Harrison on the ropes, followed by a combination of right to left that hit the challenge head back.
Other attacks followed the body before it was concentrated in the head again, causing left hooks and straight rights that sent his man to the ground.
Harrison returned to his feet at the count of eight, but Hague ran through the ring to finish with a right roundhouse huge and the referee stopped.
Britain, the former welterweight champion Ricky Hatton, who had a ringside seat for the match, said he expected Harrison to provide better performance, It has the advantage of size, the weight advantage when the advantage and he threw just one punch.
Audley has worked so hard with all the criticism he has had over the years to get this picture and I think when he goes back and watches the band he would be disappointed with himself."
Adam Booth, Haye’s trainer and manager, said he would not fight beyond October 2011. They (the Klitschko brothers) want a fight definition and David is a defining fight, said Booth.
David will retire in October next year so have not had much time to talk sense. It will be released before the summer of Wladimir and Vitali care after the summer.
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