'Enough of this sportsman nonsense'

I am referring to the article on the front page. The title itself makes me cringe. Does the author really imply that sportsmanlike behaviour in our sport shouldn't be held in regard anymore? And then justifies Floyds actions by stating that foul play happens in other sports too?? Well, two wrongs don't make a right. And for me, as a boxing fan, boxing still is a noble art and should be held to a high standard, more even so than other sports. Most importantly, foul play in our sport is dangerous in that it might seriously hurt the athletes. Hurting your opponent may have more severe consequences than fouling in a basketball game.

Contrary to MMA, where it's 'win at all cost', boxing is a true sport, and it's in the Olympics. And the credibility of our sport has suffered a lot during these last 10 years. Scandalous decisions time and time again, robberies, corruption, idiotic boxing politics, and so on... have undermined our sports reputation as the 'sweet science'. Small wonder boxing is losing it's popularity fast and 'fight fans' are fleeing to MMA.

Floyd is arguably the P4P #1 (or #2) fighter in boxing. He's the biggest boxing star in the US, one of the main faces on HBO and thus THE ambassador of our sport (alongside the Klitschkos and Pacquiao maybe).

And I gotta say he's representing our sport very badly. I'm not even gonna start about his thuglike behaviour outside the ring. But that aside, he doesn't respect the fans by having 'vacations' and not giving us the fights we want to see. The fights boxing needs so badly. Floyd Mayweather doesn't care about boxing. This wasn't always like that, and until now he stayed classy inside the ring at least. Inside the ring, lil Floyd was a true sportsman, until he threw these sucker punches against Ortiz.

So there are double standards: someone like Ortiz is a dirty fighter, and he should never get a pass for it; but it's worse when the ambassador of our sport doesn't show sportsmanship than when a punk like Ortiz doesn't do it. Because Mayweather represents boxing - Ortiz doesn't. Mayweather lowered himself to Ortiz level though, maybe even lower, and that is simply not acceptable. Mayweather has to behave in a sportsmanlike behaviour inside the ring (so does Pacquiao and the Klitschkos for that matter, the other ambassadors of the sport), and until these suckerpunches against Ortiz he always did it. And he never needed any foul play to win any of his fights (he wouldn't have needed foul play against Ortiz either). Floyd should not get a free pass by the boxing medias for what he did either. We finally need to step up for sportsmanship in our sport.

And stop with that 'protect yourself at all times' excuse- while that may be the #1 boxing rule in the book, there's also unwritten rules, and we all know that what Floyd did was unsportsmanlike and not honourable.

Any true boxing fan should agree with me on this.