EGOS TRIPPING OUT
DURING a year in which the collective aim has been to protect the elderly and those with underlying health issues, trust boxing, sport’s most irresponsible care home, to wheel out two of its at-risk and beloved patients into a playground of children with no regard for safety and call it not senseless but an ‘exhibition’.
This shameless flouting of the rules occurred in Los Angeles (Staples Center) on Saturday (November 28) and the patients in question were former world champions Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jnr, two men in their 50s, who were promised safety and told to get out there and fight.
It was, in many ways, the perfect fight for the COVID-19 era – perfect in that it was fuelled by boredom, bulls**t and a need for attention, and perfect, too, in the sense that it came at a time when a product’s quality and appeal is judged only in terms of likes, retweets and followers. Frankly, what better way to remind ourselves of how things used to be than to be shown, in quite sobering fashion, how much time has passed? Tyson vs. Jones was, alas, both an exhibition and an exercise in self-harm.
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