Wladimir Klitschko becomes Unified Boxing Champion!

Wladimir Klitschko defeats David Haye in a lackluster titlefight for the WBA Championship.

This fight was supposed to be the biggest fight since Hatton vs Mayweather or Lewis vs Tyson. The latter two legends, along with George Foreman believed Haye would lose via knockout, a half-truth.

The match was in the open-air Imtech Arena in Hamburg,Germany but was almost cancelled due to the weather. Just before the scheduled entrance at 10pm, Haye's locker-room said he wasn't ready; the fight was delayed by a further 10 minutes.

Both men entered the ring confidently; Haye to an electrified crowd, Klitschko to a bunch of jeers. After the national anthem the fight was on!

Klitschko was firing out repeated jabs to Haye; Haye either slipped the punches or bobbed and weaved; every few punches he shot toward Klitschko and attempted one of his infamous haymakers but to little effect; Klitschko either blocked them or shrugged them off. Haye was not firing nearly enough shots and was losing points every time Klitschko hit him (generally when Haye attempted to attack the body).

In the closing stages of round two and the whole of round three, Haye counterpunches to good measure and accumulated the points from the multiple retaliation shots (either that or Klitschko was feeling lazy those rounds).However, winning one-and-a half rounds is nothing compared to winning ten-and-a-half.

Between rounds one and five Klitschko was warned for pushing down on Haye and making him fall to the ground. After that, the crowd could see that Haye was overreacting and was diving. In fact, the referee penalised Haye for this with a standing eight count!

Ironically it was in the first and last rounds Haye landed a good shot to Klitschko; these punches were not enough to win the match or topple Klitschko;the latter in particular were when Klitschko began using his other hand and ensured he won the match.

For 290 punches thrown, Haye landed 72 (24.8%). For 509 punches thrown, Klitschko landed 134 (26.3%).  The judges scored the match 117-109, 118-108 and 116-110; all Klitschko. Neither man boxed to their full potential but Haye had an excuse- he broke his toe three weeks ago; not a reason since three weeks is enough time to heal or postpone the match.

Here's to a rematch with both men at their peak with intact toes.