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Naoya’s Choice

Elliot Worsell

@ElliotWorsell

Online Editor

WE ARE all susceptible to it from time to time; just saying stuff, that is. Saying stuff that in the moment feels right, or wise, or the right thing to say, until, in the aftermath, it is reframed and all of a sudden seems wrong, out of place; the result of cliché rather than considered thought.

Perhaps, for Shawn Porter, this realisation arrived last week, when, working for ProBox TV, the former welterweight champion suggested Japan’s Naoya Inoue must prove something to him – Shawn Porter – and other Americans by fighting (again)

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