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Big Baby won’t go away

TO borrow from The Smiths, who suggested that some girls are bigger than others and that some girls’ mothers are bigger than other girls’ mothers, we must start to accept that, in boxing, some drug cheats are bigger than others and that some drug cheats’ path to redemption will, whether they like it or not, be longer than others.

In the case of Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller, for instance, you are looking at a heavyweight who has taken the brunt of the fans’ collective anger in recent years, thus becoming a sort of sacrifice who has spared many others guilty of a similar crime. This has happened, perhaps, because Miller was not at the time of his failed performance-drug test a massive, money-making

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