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WE are all losers. All of us, absolute losers. Even if you didn’t watch the Misfits Boxing card on DAZN over the weekend, you’re still a loser because you’re devoted to the sport of boxing (why else would you be reading this?). And somehow this card, full of egotistical, chronically online cash-grabbers, took something from almost all of us invested in this sport, whether it was time, money, sanity or – in the case of boxing itself – respectability.

Because there is no line between actual boxing and whatever we are supposed to call events like this. Influencer boxing? Crossover boxing? Late-stage capitalism with

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