David Haye sport's personality.

[hurlock]

he didnt attend to support fellow proffessional's & pay homage to beck's do you find this wrong.

& as for ill, that is nonsense fact.

[Scottrf]

Firmly in the don't care camp.

[SweetLikeSugar]

The Secret.

[McCannW14]

I applaud David Haye for snubbing the BBC awards. For years it has been full of cardboard presenters peddling politically correct and media created hype jobs.

No mention of Carl Froch renders the BBC sports department an utter joke in my view.

I didnt even watch the awards.

[SAPFO]

Froch would have won that had people actually knew who he is. I think I do more promoting by explaining who he is to people on a regular basis.

[Datsue]

Richard "The Secret" Williams

[hurlock]

what's with the secret sh1t???

carl froch has done great becoming a 2x world champion character testing sheet :!:

beating a 46yr old 3xtime paperweight ex champ on his last leg & fraudley aint worthy, he should of been gratefull to be in the reckoning.

[bfchunk]

Voted yes, but firmly in "the secret" camp

[Happy Slapper]

I think he was genuinely ill.

[SweetLikeSugar]

Why are people saying Froch should have been nominated? The nominations were made before his fight with Abraham and at that point Froch had lost his only other fight of 2010.

I don't think Haye should have been nominated either, mind.

[Glyn Leach]

IMO BBC television does not support boxing so boxing should not support BBC television

[black panther]

Richard "The Secret" Williams

x3

[nh1]

IMO BBC television does not support boxing so boxing should not support BBC television

Glyn, I know this is an argument FW makes, too. But I have my doubts about how effective it would be...

Do you really think the BBC would care if SPOTY was boycotted by the boxing world, and by a boxer who won? They'd just do some slick line like 'Unfortunately, [David Haye] can't be with us tonight', and show some highlight reels.

Wouldn't boxing have far more to lose by boycotting? We all deplore the current policy of the BBC regarding the lack of boxing coverage, but I would imagine it would be better to engage with them where we can, in the hope of (eventually) getting somewhere. I don't imagine downright hostility (or even non-cooperation) will get us very far...

[Glyn Leach]

Of course they wouldn't care mate, obviously I know that. They don't care about boxing full stop. But it would be rather nice if a boxer were to be the standout sportsman one year and tell the BBC: 'No, I don't want your poxy award because you don't support my sport.' Would be some good publicity in that. Will it ever happen though? I very much doubt it, boxing is a sport of individuals and an award is an award, some people get off on them.

The Sporting Life was running a poll on the day of the awards, contacting the specialist mags behind the sports of all the potential winners, asking for comments. Mine was that BM cannot support a competition run by a company that doesn't support boxing. Just me making my own little protest, would be nice if the boxers did similar - because it affects them more than me. The option is to pretend that everything is OK BBC, we'll support your competition whatever you do to us. I can't do that personally - because it really isn't OK.