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TWENTY-TWENTY hasn’t been much fun, but it has been revealing. We began the year strong, with Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder squaring off for a second time in February and Fury turning in a career-best performance. It earned solid pay-per-view numbers in the US and saw BT Sport move into the PPV sphere in the UK as a legitimate operator and competitor to Sky Sports.

Of course, a month later, everything changed. Lockdowns were announced worldwide in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and boxing, along with

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