By Steven Wain: So, nearly a week on and the dust has finally settled on what was (wrongly I may add) described as one of the most controversial fights ever to go ahead, I’m sure I don’t need to explain why (unless you have been living on mars for the past few months).

Why was the Haye, Chisora, fight good for boxing you might ask? After all Chisora already had his license withdrawn by the BBBoC – not banned as some seem to falsely report constantly- due to the bust up with Haye in Munich along with many other occurrences, and Haye well he was retired and was also to blame in the Munich bust up.

Before i start lets get one thing straight I am in no way condoning what the two fighters did but this may sound strange to some of you THEY ARE BOXERS fighting is what they do (Soccer players kick a ball around in a park, is there a media outrage?), if Haye and Chisora started swapping flowers people would be saying “OMG ! Boxing has gone soft!” Along with I’m sure many more absurd comments. (Not the best sentence there, i know, but you get the idea. If you don’t then…)

The media made a mountain out of a mole hill, headlines like”Dereck Chisora’s brawl with David Haye ruins boxing’s fragile dignity” from a UK paper that should stick to covering the cricket and reporting other pointless information only people over the age of 70 care about. Fragile dignity? Give me a break ask the 30,000 fans who attended the fight at West Ham’s Upton Park (surpassing the attendance for Lennox Lewis v Frank Bruno in 1993 I might add) and the millions around the world if they think boxing has a “fragile dignity”.

Here is another reason, the way the two warriors conducted themselves during the fight and after was truly professional, what happened outside the ring was forgotten and they fought by the rules, even touching gloves at the start, the same can’t however be said for soccer players who weekly involve themselves in, racism, abusive language, rape, violence, refusal to shake another’s hand before a game, that’s just naming a few and do they get negative press, oh I don’t know maybe an headline like “ruins soccer’s fragile dignity” the answer is simple no.

30,000 fans live, millions watching on TV not exactly “bad” for boxing is it?