PHEW. What a week! Who would’ve thought a failed drugs test could’ve ground a sanely and well-run sport to a halt? But it did, in the UK at least, and just for the record, boxing isn’t sanely or well run at all. It has long resembled a rudderless ship without a captain. The optics of a huge event being pulled two days before it’s scheduled to go ahead, because of a failed drugs test, and its promoters going all-out to circumvent the ruling with lawyers and loopholes, won’t be forgotten anytime soon.
Boxing is a sport in crisis and it’s not just because of Conor Benn and his alleged ingestion of a fertility drug. Rather, it’s
