As proud as I am to be English I do hate the way a lot of our population put our own people down. It happened all the time with Eubank and more recently with Naz, even though they are two of the most successful boxers this country has seen. What is more perplexing is that we lap up the Americans, for instance, for being the same showmen e.g. Sugar Ray Leonard.

As regards Audley, there is a train of thought that he only fights weak opponents, which make people go against him. As far as I am concerned, he won us a gold medal in the Olympics so we should be 100% proud of him and get behind him whatever he does.

He is progressing in his pro career exactly the same way as Lennox did or Nigel Benn, for example, or any of our past/curent champs for that matter. No one in their right mind is going to fight a world class fighter after only 14 fights, all of which he has won and 10 by ko incidentally, so not that bad a record really. Brian Nix had also been in with some quality fighters so that is a step in the right direction.

Its about time we stopped bashing our own and got behind them, as this attitude only hinders sport in our country. It wouldn`t be a bad thing if we took a lesson from the Aussies in getting behind our sportspeople, as they are patriotic to the extreme, as has been show on this site as few times!