At last....

Hello
I aint posted a blog for a bit, mainly because I have had nothing to write about, so would of bored you even more than usually! But I finally do have something to write about.

Im quite a big fan of boxing. I will often stay and watch a fight or too, so long as it ain't a pair of big girls hugging each other for a couple of rounds. I like a fight with a lot of pace, good, fast strong hits.And I suppose an evenly matched one. Like going and watching a good football team trounce a crap one, its good, but its not edge of your seat stuff like a relegation scrap.

For example there were 2 fights which really mattered. Amir Kahn won his very easily , knocking his opponent out in about 72 seconds....shame i'd got a drink and was ready for the long haul...And Ricky 'Hitman' Hatton, as everybody says, fighting a jumped up yank Floyd Mayweather....

I couldn't predict which way the fight would go. Mayweather has a good hit and is very quick, bouncing all over the place like a rabbit with a red hot poker up its arse, and Hatton just keeps hitting and hitting and hitting. In the end, after a rather comical 'showdown' at the weigh in, Mayweather knocked Hatton down in the 10th round and that was it. Had Hatton won, he may of been in the running for Sports personality of the year...but instead in went to a boxer who really deserved it.

Joe Calzaghe (I had to copy the name, doubted i would spell it right), has been a world champion boxer for 10 years. He was in extremely impressive form in Cardiff last month and if a boxer was gonna win it, he deserved it more than Hatton. Make no mistake, both are incredible fighters, and to be honest need to fight more than they do in a year, but does this mean that the sport will be better recognised.

The main problem with boxing is the concept. Smacking folks in the head attempting knock em out for however long may be seen as a little barbaric. But at the end of the day, its becoming more and more controlled and seems less likely that people will get hurt boxing than driving a F1 car.

But so long as people still pay a lot of money go see it, the popularity won't fade.
Josh