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Just wondering like. I suppose I've been interested in it as a sport for a long time, my grandfather was a heavyweight amateur who also boxed in the Army. I suppose I also like the fact that it's one of those sports that polarises opinion. People often either love it or hate it. To me, when done well, it's a sweet science - the art of not getting hit while able to land shots of your own.
Many fans today bemoan the fact that the heavyweight division is a shambles and put this, partly, down to the fragmentation caused by too many governing bodies all offering 'official' world titles. I also think it's to do with weight, most heavyweights these days are 17/18/19/20 stone and they simply don't have the mobility that heavyweights of yesteryear had, who were often around the 15 stone mark. This led to far more explosive matches, the sort of action that today we see in the Super-Middleweight, or more recently in the Light Heavy divisions.
David Haye is certainly worth watching at the moment, I think he's got a lot of promise but like a lot of boxers he needs to be careful not to get too cocky. Ego has been the undoing of many a fighter, take Naseem Hamed for example, but ironically it's also something that you need a dose of to get into a ring at that level of competition in the first place.