If you missed it on Saturday, here is the fight between David Haye and Monte Barrett. No guarantee on these working by the time you press play, but hey.

Rounds one and two are in the first video; the remainder of the fight is after the jump. 

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Don't question the heart of Monte Barrett. And don't question the firepower of David Haye. When push came to shove, the firepower won out.

Barrett was knocked down twice in the third round, twice in the fourth, and once more in the fifth before referee Ricky Davies stepped in to prevent Barrett from again getting up and fighting on, as it appeared he was about to do. The overdue stoppage sealed a fifth round knockout for David Haye in London.

It's not a performance to get up in arms about. Though Barrett did catch him a few times in the second, I still wouldn't say we've seen Haye's heavyweight beard tested. But his chin issues, frankly, have long been a bit overstated. Still, when he's hit hard by a 240, 250 pound guy -- what happens then?

As far as his punch goes, clearly it's carried up in weight, as most expected it would. There was actually no real reason to think it wouldn't. He was an exceptionally heavy-handed cruiserweight, and he is a hard puncher fighting at 215 pounds, too.

The real difference, I think, was just in total package skills. Haye was a very good amateur boxer and as I said earlier today, his technique is often overlooked. He can get a bit wild, but he does it, it seems, at the right times. He pounces like few others in the sport do, regardless of weight class. And when he smells blood, he finishes.

He also showed great restraint, not getting overly excited when he'd knock Barrett down. He never threw a big volume of sloppy punches that accomplished nothing. He instead waited nicely for another chance to drill Barrett. And it seemed every time he got a chance, he made it happen.

Big ups to Monte Barrett, too. He was fighting on hostile ground in a huge, packed arena, and he never stopped trying, even when the outclassing massacre became clear for what it is. David Haye was obviously the better man, but Monte did himself no disservice. He went at Haye a bit too boldly, I'd say, but he also appeared to lose confidence in his jab as early as the first round, when he couldn't get it home and the resulting shortcomings of the punch got him cracked a couple times.

We'll see what's next for Haye. Vitali Klitschko, the WBC titleholder, was in the house and all over Setanta talking up a fight with Haye (or a fight between his brother and Haye), but Vitali has to either deal with Juan Carlos Gomez or give up his title, if the WBC is to be believed.

But as far as today goes, David Haye made a nice "first" impression on the heavyweight scene.

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4:18 ET Update: Look for the Haye fight around 6PM ET or so. We MAY have some undercard action. The broadcast is live as we speak.

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David Haye has officially signed to fight Monte Barrett at heavyweight on November 15, ending months of speculation with a safe, predictable choice.

Haye (21-1, 20 KO) will have home field advantage at the O2 Arena in London, and faces a man who has lost four of his last nine, and has never beaten a top-flight opponent.

The 37-year old Barrett (34-6, 20 KO) is basically in career extension time, and the Haye fight represents a nice payday and a chance for an upset that could lead to another nice payday. He is coming off of a one-round destruction of Bob Arum project/obsession Tye Fields, the goofy, uncoordinated ex-bad basketball player from Montana.

Haye started this heavyweight talk around a year ago, really, after beating Jean-Marc Mormeck for the cruiserweight championship. He would stay at cruiser to defend against Enzo Maccarinelli, a fight that captured the imagination of the U.K. boxing community and made it onto U.S. television, too, only to disappoint when Haye blew him out inside of two rounds.

Once that was over, with Haye firmly and unquestionably the top cruiserweight in the world, he decided to move up to face the big boys, often calling out Wladimir Klitschko, and referring to all heavyweights as "fat guys."

Haye said he would fight a top ten heavyweight. That was really never in the cards. Barrett's name came up even before he beat Tye Fields, and was heavily circulated once he had done so. Here are some names that fell by the wayside during the talkin' stages: Hasim Rahman, James Toney, Kevin Johnson, J.D. Chapman, Oleg Maskaev, Eddie Chambers. None panned out.

Instead, it's the journeyman Barrett, a likable sort of guy, and a dude I'm happy is getting the chance, even though I think Haye probably drops him inside of five and doesn't break much of a sweat.