LONG before Oleksandr Usyk called Tyson Fury “greedy belly” and summed up both the reason why a fight between them would never happen and why the heavyweight division is on its knees, Edward Abbey, author and environmentalist, told the world: “A house built on greed cannot long endure.”
In boxing, we sadly see evidence of this year upon year. We see boxers, primarily male ones, boxing less and less and in turn normalising the idea that one or two fights a year is perfectly fine. We also see big fights between well-matched stars of the sport no longer materialising on account of there not being enough money in the pot, or no
