✍️ Risking brain injury by pitching two fighters separated by height, weight and experience in a shabby cash-grab was an ugly moment for boxing 🟢 GARSIDEK
Shitshow you say? You bet, and not remotely salvaged by the late burst of sanity that shut down boxing’s freak show.was always a fight high on financial imperatives and low on merit, validated entirely by the connection to famous fathers.
Ordinarily Benn and Eubank Jr would be kept apart by convention and common sense. Benn, a welterweight, and Eubank Jr, a super middleweight who can boil down to middle, are separated by height, weight and experience. They had little business in a ring together before. That the organisers would throw the lawyers at a problem that had a clear moral resolution demonstrates the degree to which the sport has lost a sense of place and proportion.
How many reasons do you need to can a show? A failed drug test should be enough. The express instruction of a boxing regulatory body, in this case the British Boxing Board of Control, that the fight should not go ahead would be another. Neither carried any weight with promotors seeking a legal solution to keep the coin rolling. We should not be surprised that a shabby compromise should be sought for a contest that was premised on shabby compromise.
Pitching a welterweight against a super middleweight would have made sanctioning bodies wince 100 years ago when the practice of fighters crossing divisions was common, and for much the same reason. Cash. The sport has civilised since then. Or it had. This kind of spectacle is the consequence of the growth of phony match-making in the YouTube universe, which has a ready-made audience for car crash TV.
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