I’m glad that cuffing people in the head is fashionable again. I don’t like to see Sky buying up all the rights to show all major sporting events. Ordinary viewers have a right to watch people cuffing one another without having to pay extra for it. Boxing was part of my world growing up, part of the 80s. It’s like Spam; you can’t take away Spam (and I’m not talking about the kind that’s going to blight my computer today). Dramatic music, ridiculously masculine posturing followed by a bit of blood and soft tissue swelling, no Saturday night is complete without it. Seriously though, boxing has saved a lot of youths from more violent lives; it breeds discipline and a certain kind of kinship. I do, however, take a slightly different view to those who allow their 10 year olds to go competitive cage fighting without protective head gear as seen in that channel 4 documentary Strictly Baby Fight Club. In these cases the children are not the only ones in the
vicinity with underdeveloped brains.
You can learn a lot from boxing but I won’t be following the Ricky Hatton school of dieting; binging between fights and then denying myself culinary pleasures in the lead up to a big fight. There’s a name for that… Bulimia. But it is definitely a public service to put the David (I look so pretty never been hit before) Haye on our screens. Despite the welcome return to our terrestrial screens I would like it more if there were no adverts in between the 3 minute rounds. I’d rather see the fighters sitting in their corners on their stools sweating and panting, receiving an occasional motivational slap from their trainers. What I do not want to see is 10 seconds of some ponce driving round in a Citroen C5 or whatever. You have no chance of selling me anything while I’m ruminating over David Haye’s abs. Having said that, I am a little disturbed by the recent trend of fighters using themselves as human billboards – paid to shave adverts into the backs of their heads, or spray paint stencilled onto their backs or the soles of their boots. The only thing that should be decorating their bodies is their own blood; I would find that LESS offensive.
David Haye – Absolutely Abulous
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Always good to read about boxing.
Can I ask though – how did you get this picked up and into google news?
Very impressive, is it something that is just up to Google or you actively created?
Obviously this is a popular blog with great data so well done on your seo success..