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Monday was an unusual day for a fight week press conference but for me it made a refreshing change. Every man and his dog today would have seen something of the Haye-Klit presser. Hopefully it got all the Brits at home as excited as we are already! Anyway I will get to that soon.
If you're going to order poached eggs on day one, come day four what are you going to order? Poached eggs again maybe but with finest scotch fillet of beef - on bubble & squeak hash browns served with a reduction of wild mushrooms, herbs and Chianti? (now I'm getting hungry).We started the day like any other: at breakfast. I went for the scrambled egg on brown toast. Coldwell trumped me with scrambled egg with ham and onion while the Dark Lord Adam Booth opted for four poached eggs. 'Schoolboy error', was my first thought. I mean where's the progression?
1pm quickly came around and it was time to head off to the press conference. We all slipped into our fetching new t-shirts, which depict David punching the head off of a man who in my opinion looks suspiciously like.... Audley Harrison.
Once there we all piled into the lift, out the other end and into the hall. David and Adam took their seats at the top table and the 'presentation' began. First up was some blah blahs followed by more blahs. Nookie Bear Booth then got up and delivered his speech. He did adlib a bit from what was originally planned, later on he admitted he did use the speech note cue cards I wrote for him just in case he forgot.
David D Haye AKA The Hayemaker for me was word perfect. Told the honest truth. Wlad will face a harsh reality and it is irrelevant wether he has studied tapes of David's because David will be totally different Saturday night!
Wlad on the other hand was also entertaining. Managed to crack a few funnies and had his own publicity stunt planned with the 50 on his hand.
Paddy Fitzpatrick managed to cause a little tension there when he stood up to shake hands with the legendary Emanuel Steward. Mr Steward in the past has been reluctant to grace Paddy with such an honour of shaking the magic hand. He was offered the magic fist though as Mr Steward told all with in ear shot that he would fight Paddy after the main event. All in all it added some spice.
Of course Vitali was there. Looking far more menacing than his little brother, he grabbed the mic and told Haye he must attend the post-fight presser. Haye sharply countered with "you must attend and not go to the hospital with your brother".
Vitali to me has a steely look in his eye, (no robot reference) it's like he's an emotionally-attached terminator (robot reference) and loves a fight! I'll explain why this is relevant: I was asked to hang around to do a talkSPORT interview and once that was finished I soon realised team Haye had made tracks and only Elliot and I were left.
As I walked to my seat with Elliot, Vitali was giving me daggers! My first thought was 'arrrrgh!', followed by respect for him for hating any opposition, followed by the realisation that I was the only Team Hayemaker member in the building sporting a picture of a decapitated Kazak-born, German-based Urkanian!
Brit abroad was in action though and managed to get my camera so close to Wlad's face during aSky Sports News live interview he couldn't help but turn to me after and ask 'sid you get enough pictures?' (add your own accent).
The rest of the day was about relaxing. The Hayemaker stayed in and watched some DVD's. Me and a few others went out for a cheeky pasta. And no, that is not a metaphor. Nearly there people!
