This year has simmered with shock and story so far for the sport of boxing with yet-to-be deciphered drug scandals and controversial upsets. And now we have a bout with traces of the Wild West if not the essence and origin of the sport itself on our doorstep and everyone is talking about it. Whether you agree or not; like it or loathe it; are in or out; David Haye against Dereck Chisora in London is a ticket seller and as ringside reporter for BoxNation on Saturday, I'm in.
This is a fight that Haye wouldn't have considered worthy last year but the dramatic events that followed Chiosora's valiant, losing effort against Vitali Klitschko in February lent the match a simmering inevitability.
I was in Munich that night when post-fight punches were thrown and blood was spilled; when a ...