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David Haye fight proves more Stan and Ollie than David and Goliath | Martin Kelner

Source: The Guardian

Nov 09, 2009

Summary

Sky tried to play down the comedy of the traditionally proportioned David Haye's battle with the hulking Nikolai Valuev

I shall tell you what you rarely see on TV these days – Laurel and Hardy shorts. BBC2 used to show a whole bunch of them – not the silent ones, sadly, but you cannot have everything – round about Christmas time, slung into the schedule wherever there was a 20-minute gap, and bringing welcome relief from the overblown variety shows and family films showing elsewhere.

If you love that kind of material as I do, you will be familiar with the plot device whereby the little chap – Stan Laurel, Charlie Chaplin – finds himself for some reason or other in a boxing ring with a big, ferocious fellow, and has to run around avoiding him, squealing and making cartoon movements of the legs in the case of Stan, eluding the blows in a comically balletic manner in Charlie's case.

I had thought this kind of comedy was more or less dead until the David Haye-Nikolai Valuev fight on Sky Box Office on Saturday, which was essentially the old story of the little fellow

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