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The Deep End

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FOR any parent, there comes a time when they must decide whether to continue enforcing strict rules on their child or simply resign themselves to the fact that there is perhaps no better way to learn than from mistakes. Conditioned, or so it seems, to want to break rules rather than follow them, and always wanting to do things ahead of schedule, it hardly matters when they are told they can and cannot drink, drive, smoke, or have sex, for they will ultimately find a time that suits them; a time that will, without fail, be seen as premature in the eyes of their parents.

In boxing, this same trend can be witnessed, only the dangers are the fights and the parents are the promoters. Still, though, the principle remains, and still the promoters must know when to hold a boxer back and when, with a reluctant shrug, they must let them be true to their nature and find out the hard way.

This, it would appear, is precisely what the universe has in store for on Saturday (August 26).

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