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There are reasons why boxing is the only sport that , and they are the same reasons it is viewed with suspicion by many modern sports fans.

The boxing world is dark, dangerous and amoral, the sporting equivalent of the Wild West: no-one seems to know who's in charge, and many seem not to care. This apparently lawless environment froths with characters living by their own laws, while those in the civilised and sanitised world avert their gaze, genuinely amazed that such chicanery still goes on.

Some will doubtless accuse me of overstating my case in a fit of journalistic hysteria, but they will be those who haven't been following the , the Fight of the Century that might never happen.

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Fights to decide the best boxer in the world happen hardly ever, so only a dunce or, as is often the case in boxing, a confederacy of them, could nix Floyd Mayweather v Manny Pacquiao.

Alas, and it's all as crushingly predictable as the ill-fitting cardigan you'll be whisking back to Marks and Sparks on Boxing Day, the dunces are trying their damndest. As if the sport's reputation, already lower than a snake's spit bucket, could fall any further.

As it stands . For weeks now, Floyd's father has been claiming, and not on the QT either, that Pacquiao's astronomical rise through the weight divisions has been fuelled by steroids.

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