Frank Bruno questions Haye's decision to fight with toe injury

Updated on: 04 July,2011 08:28 AM IST |
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Former heavyweight champ Bruno questions david's decision to fight with foot injury

Former heavyweight champ Bruno questions david's decision to fight with foot injury

Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye(right) during their heavy weight
unification match. PIC/GETTY IMAGES

Klitschko, 35, beat Britain's Haye on a unanimous points decision in their heavyweight title unification bout in Hamburg. The Ukrainian now holds the IBF, WBO and WBA belts after being awarded the contest 117-109, 118-108, 116-110 by the three judges to claim victory over Haye, the former WBA champion.

After the bout, Haye blamed his defeat on a broken toe. But Bruno, speaking to BBC Radio Five's Sportsweek programme, said yesterday : "If he had a broken toe I would advise him to pull out because a broken toe is your balance and it works everything.

"If you've got a broken toe your balance and everything goes, but he must know his business. If he fought with a broken toe he must be a very brave man."

Meanwhile former Olympic boxing champion Audley Harrison, who lost to Haye said the 30-year-old should not have gone public with his injury. Frank Warren, a boxing promoter, labelled Haye a "cry baby" for his post-fight explanation.

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