IT IS easy to compare boxing to other sports and bemoan the structural chaos we’re forced to endure, but when doing so, we must also compare other sports to boxing and highlight their inability to compete when it comes to drop-of-the-hat excitement and drama. In that regard, boxing stands alone – when fights are matched correctly – as the most invigorating in existence.
No other sport rivals ours in that regard, not five-set marathons at Wimbledon nor World Cup Finals that are decided by a penalty shootout after one side had staged a
