BOXING IS DESTROYING ITSELF

I AM a 41-year-old man who has been a football fanatic for my entire life. But the last few years of endless questionable money coming into the game had me turning off.

So recently I’ve come back to boxing. I remember as a kid watching Bruno, Lewis, Eubank lighting up my TV on the weekends. I remember desperately hunting down a VHS of Prince Naseem’s early fights. I loved it. But eventually football dragged me back and I left boxing in my 20s.

So now I’ve been getting back into it. Learning properly about the different divisions, catching up on fighters I’ve missed out on in those wilderness years, watching old fights on YouTube, reading books, trying to understand the intricacies