Quote Originally Posted by Gubby Allen View Post
It baffles me how people expect heavyweight boxers to behave like courteous, decent sportsmen acting with great humility.

They're not golfers, or snooker players. These are blokes of 18 stone, with little education behind them, who are going out there to beat each other to a pulp, to suddenly expect them to behave like Terry Griffiths or Arnold Palmer, seems a bit shortsighted.

It's great when you get a Bruno who's a nice guy & Lennox was always very eloquent, but they can't all be like that.

Any other sport, probably even most other weights at boxing, this last week would be completely unnacceptable but there's a bit of leeway with heavyweight boxers. I don't want them to be nice blokes who always shake hands & asks how each other's holidays were. That's for every other sport to do.
These 2 were an embaressment though, its not like people care about the sport as it is, they have made it even worse.