Haye & Bellew have played their parts brilliantly

Haye v Bellew is a fight that has captured the imagination of fight fans up and down the country, whether it's captured it for the right reasons is up for discussion.

As a writer for this website I was tasked with writing the Big Fight Preview a few weeks ago. Writing a non biased article on the fight was bloody hard!

With every sentence I felt myself swaying from one side of the fence to the other, even in our team conversations about the fight I've been the one taking up the middle ground as my view on it seems to change by the hour.

In his ahem 'Haye-day' there was no bigger David Haye fan than myself. I quite literally had the t-shirt. I was also never a huge fan of the weight drained, snarly Light Heavyweight Tony Bellew.

However over recent years the more amiable Cruiserweight Bellew has won me over. He's frank, forthright but also pretty down to earth. Haye on the other hand, has stepped away from the game (however much he tried to deny that) and has returned an even more smug individual than he was before. One that it is very hard to like I have to say.

So when this fight was announced, I really did hope it would see the return of Cruiserweight Haye (what a fighter he was) with the appeal of Heavyweight Champion Haye against the newly popular Cruiserweight champ Bellew.

But what we've been left with is a bitter, angry, way beyond the mark David Haye and a strange PG version of Tony Bellew.

I sat and watched Behind the Ropes and all I could think about was how both fighters were portraying very contrived personalities. Haye, the villain, sat on his super yacht surrounded by female minions and Shane McGuigan dismissing the idea of a Bellew win.

Whilst the Bomber was sat at home, squeezing his kids, looking doe-eyed at his Mrs and playing FIFA with his boys.

Now the sceptic in me, and many others, will say it's all been constructed to boost Pay Per View sales. And sadly I've walked straight into their hands- I've watched the build up on IFL, I've live streamed the pressers when my boss wasn't looking, and I wait with baited breath to see exactly what shape the two are in when they take to the scales on Friday.

The scene has been set by Executive Producer Hearn and Director Adam Smith, the stars of the show are primed and ready. The critics have already panned the blockbuster as predictable and samey, whilst some punters like me refuse to believe the rumours and will insist on watching until the credits stop rolling- just in case there is an alternative ending.