I believe it is only right for me to have my two penneth worth on the events from the weekend. Having watched the disgraceful yet thoroughly entertaining scenes of the Derek Chisora vs David Haye kafuffle, it dawned on me how the British press and public love to make a scapegoat out of someone.
Yes what they did was wrong and it should not have happened but look at the sport. Who really cares about the heavyweight boxing division. I would like to make it totally clear that I am not a worlds leader on everything boxing, far from it, but what I do know is that most people couldn’t give a rats arse about any fights that go on. Look how excited people are getting at just the thought of Manny Pacquiao against Floyd Mayweather. Now that is a fight that people want to see. Two evenly matched fighters, quick, powerful and exciting. Let’s compare that to the heavyweight division. The champions are two gargantuan oafs that are 40 years old!! They are brothers so will never fight each other and are so big that no one can get to them to really have a go. The heavy weight fights are slow and cumbersome. Don’t get me wrong again, my god I don’t want to get hit by one of those blokes, I would reckon it may smart a fair bit, but I just as much don’t want to waste my time watching them when there is other more exciting things I could be doing, such as counting the rain drops on my balcony! If you are reading thinking, ‘this is very off the point’ then you get 5 points as it is but it will become clear soon.
What happened on Saturday night was fun, interesting and brought some excitement back to boxing at that weight. If anyone hasn’t seen it then I suggest you do, it is brilliant. It shows 2 men that clearly would, and I am sure have tried to give themselves head showing off. They goad each other and insult each other, I was honestly waiting for the line ‘my dad’s better than your dad!’ Then Chisora gets off the stage where he was fronting the media and goes to Haye where the scuffle happens. I am not saying that it was right or in fact necessary but it happened and look at what it has done for a flagging sport. The heady heights of heavyweight boxing when Ali or even Tyson were doing their thing are a long way off and nowhere near coming back but at least this has given people something to talk about over their cornflakes, and I for one would definitely watch it if these two fought in the ring.
Now the point – phew I hear you say. Since this has happened I have read things in the British press saying that one or the other or both the guys involved are a ‘disgrace.’ Yes they are role models and they have to conduct themselves in a certain way but for a living they punch people as hard as they can in the face!!! I don’t know of many mothers that when their son is growing up saying ‘ I really want him to be a boxer.’ Golfer – yes, footballer – yes, boxer-errr not so much. When the press get on the bandwagon of ‘what does this show to the children of today.’ Don’t show it on prime time news! The fight was on at night time on Saturday. When was the last time you saw boxing that started at 3pm in the afternoon. It doesn’t happen it is a sport for adults. Why do the press have to really try and make out one of these guys to be the bad person? It doesn’t end here, there are many occasions where they have looked for an excuse. The recession – again I literally have no idea about what goes on in politics, I think it’s all a load of bollocks, but I would like to hazard a guess and say that this didn’t happen overnight. It wasn’t totally Gordon Brown’s fault yet the blame lay at his door. I don’t want to get too deep into that as I just don’t have enough knowledge of it ( and there is a blog about politics coming up so stay tuned, it will be a doozey). Then let’s go back to sport. Englands Rugby World Cup. They lost because of Mike Tindall and his going out. No they lost because they were not good enough, there were teams at the tournament that were better than England were. It was Martin Johnson’s fault, he let the team go out too much. I play rugby and have played in tournaments where you travel and live in hotels for 2 weeks. You need to go out and let off some steam, if you don’t then feel cooped up, you need to find an outlet. Going back a bit, David Beckham getting sent off in the World Cup. Again England didn’t lose just because he got sent off. Yes he may have taken a penalty but he may as well have missed it, look at Euro 2004 against Portugal. There always needs to be a scapegoat, but sometimes we should just let it be and it will sort itself out. That is the thought for the say, tune in tomorrow for something different. Laters
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