Bellew's plan was clearly to take the punishment in the first few rounds, keep as far away as possible but obviously he was likely to lose them in terms of aggression. Again, Haye was at no point really battering Bellew. Obviously the injury means we don't know what would have happened, I'm not saying it didn't help Bellew massively, maybe he wouldn't have gone on to win but he'd already seen off Haye's best for me.
It's just the fact people are desperately defending Haye as if the injury is an excuse, it's the fact he couldn't wobble a man a stone lighter than him that is more concerning than the actual loss. Bellew was the man at a serious disadvantage, a bigger gap in weight than between Golovkin and Brook and at no stage did Haye have that kind of advantage over hi,.