Let’s Get ready to RUMBLLLLLLLLE!
This weekend saw David Haye defeat Nikolai Valuev to become Britain’s first heavyweight boxing champion since Lennox Lewis. Haye won the fight by employing a disciplined defensive strategy, bobbing and weaving to stay away from the huge Russian and overcoming a nine inch height, seven stone weight and eight inch reach advantage. Even though Haye did enough to win, in some rounds there were only one or two punches landed – something that wasn’t great for neutral spectators…
This lack of Rocky Balboa style pugilistic exchanges had nothing to do with Haye’s well thought out game plan, but can be squarely blamed on the combatant’s choice of entrance music. With Haye entering to the sassy disco strut of McFadden & Whitehead’s ‘Ain’t No Stopping Us Now’, and Valuev entering to a turgid lip synched work out from Finish rockers Sunrise Avenue; the choice of entrance tracks blatantly failed in their job of getting the boxer’s adrenalin pumping.
Here we count down a few examples of what should have sound tracked the fighters entrance…
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