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Beauty and the beast. David and Goliath. Sky were pumping up the volume on the freak show of a fight that was Haye vs Valuev at the weekend. And if you looked at the stats, it was easy to see why the fight got the billing it did. Haye was giving away a small matter of 100lb to the giant Russian, who was taller than Haye by over a foot, and of course Valuev had a reach advantage to match.

Last night British boxer David Haye beat 7 foot Russian Nikolay Valuev to claim the WBA Heavyweight title, in a fight that was marketed as "David versus Goliath". The fight itself was fascinating, Haye's victory the result of a perfectly executed fight plan - though deliberately tweaked to accommodate a broken hand sustained early in the fight (from the Russian's big hard head!