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A Positive Test

T’S TRUE – if you are able to ignore the rate at which boxers are getting caught taking performance-enhancing drugs, and the fact that each failed test appears to be a matter of inconvenience for promoters rather than an impetus for change, and that every so-called attempt to save lives is instead an attempt to save face, and that the uncaught are just careful as opposed to clean, and that many pro events have in recent years been funded by questionable means, and that the gulf between small-hall boxing and pay-per-view boxing has never been greater, and that anything decent, it seems, has to be pay-perview in order for it to make financial

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