i forked out my hard earned last night on the boxing, and to be fair i thought it was a half-decent bout. i was dismayed at the post-fight analysis though when 'the hayemaker' blamed his poorly toe for the defeat! talk out letting yourself down!!
it got me thinking however of the brave acts (some may say stupid acts) of what some rugby league players have done over the years and carried on playing;
1. alan prescott playing a test match with a broken arm
2. andrew johns playing the arl grand final with a punctured lung
3. shaun edwards playing the CC final with a broken jaw
4. michael de vere having his head stapled up in an origin match
5. andy farell having to wear that perculiar 'snood' to stem the blood flowing from his broken nose!! i think jon wilkin may have done something similar too!

there must be loads others....

Complete tosh in my eyes
IF Haye fights again, he'll need skateboarder's kneepads on, as his knees must be knackered, after all that kneeling down he did, after flinging himself to the canvass about 10 times.

From delaying the fight 15 mins (thus making Lennox Lewis look a total bell for the the pre fight introductions), to Haye's total disinterest in the fight (did he actually get into double figures, for meaningful punches thrown), and then the farce of a press conference, in which he cites a sore tootsie as his downfall....Haye's not exactly enamoured himself to the British sporting public.

Side point, Jim Watt has got to be the worst sumerisor/pundit in the world (calm down Clarke haters). For 10 rounds, he absolutely slated everything Haye did, then for the final 2 rounds, he started praising him, for no apparent reason...baffling.

And as for Johnny Nelson/Carl Froch/Barry McGuigan in the studio before the fight...that was just a competition as to who could shout the loudest over the other two.

The Ali fights of the mid seventies were fantastic viewing.
The whole family would come around and watch as we had a colour telly.
Sounds totally weird now but we were one of the few families in our street to have a colour telly.
We didn't have a phone for that we had to walk to a phone box.

Did you used to wake-up Christmas morning to find a Stocking hung on the end of your bed with a piece of Coal & a Tangerine hiding inside.... and feel like the luckiest little boy in the whole wide world ?

broken toe or no broken toe, he still got £10-million..............

the theatrics of boxing make me puke.............I'll stick to Super League where you know its genuine

We watched it in Chicago Cocks, pretty good atmosphere in there for a change, crap fight though, Klits jab was far too good for Haye.

(Worth watching for the disturbing German TV set-pieces that introduced the fighters before they walked out, George Foreman looked completely baffled)