Wladimir Klitschko Shows His Wizardry For David Haye: GIF Spotlight

On Sky Sports, they gave Wladimir Klitschko VS David Haye all the press it demanded, from the first time Haye started to press the issue of potentially moving up to heavyweight and beating both Klitschko brothers and cleaning out the division. He succeeded in cleaning out Nikolay Valuev and John Ruiz, but the rest was much more complicated. There were multiple failed attempts for the parties to come together to make those matches. Promotional disagreements, injuries, mandatories, but they had a very long time to drum up interest in the threat of the cruiserweight destroyer.

As the match neared, there came a silly element of promotion in David Haye's shirt, and David Haye refusing to shake Wladimir's hand, as well as David Haye finally refusing to even meet face to face with the champion at Sky Sports' studio, even though he was at the building somewhere. Sky had to go to the trouble of split-screening them from their regular studio and wherever Haye was in the building. Days or weeks before, when the handshake issue came up during a presser, Wladimir, not seemingly amused, said "You don't want to shake the champ's hand?"

(Haye held one major title claim, Vitali another, Wlad two others, if that's not too absurd to comprehend-But Wladimir was clearly top dog)

Here, at the split-screen interview for Sky, it got even goofier, as Wladimir began to ask Haye to come and see him and shake his hand. "Shake the hand, dude...Come on." Then, starting to wave his hand up and down across the screen, he began to refer to his hand as the magic hand as he watched himself and Haye in the monitor. "Shake the magic hand." Listen, we all want to believe we have a magic hand, I like to think. But Klitschko's hand was more magic and he eventually won their bout by UD, with no rematch ever seemingly necessary, in 2011.


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