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For every tale of courage and decency in boxing, there’s at least twice as many more of deceit and betrayal. Honor is a rare commodity in a world in which bonds are so easily broken for the correct price. Boxing is infested with so many moral malignancies that it is in danger of developing immunity to that which is honest and dignified. Relationships degenerate until financiers look at their fighters as whores with wares to be sold. Fighters train to defend against their opponents, yet are still so vulnerable to those businesspeople around them supposedly looking after their best interests, and the many methods of sharp practice used to relieve them of their earnings.
You’d expect Don King to step over a former charge and align himself with the victorious fighter, but fighters themselves, so often perceived as the sports downtrodden, are indeed capable of similar deeds. Jesse Reid transformed Lamon Brewster from journeyman to champion. That didn’t stop Brewster from firing Reid and citing God as his instructor. Brewster’s subsequent career death is proof indeed that the Lord works in mysterious ways.
The search for truth in boxing is long and often fruitless. Mainstream media neglect forced it onto the Internet, where it is maintained by a proliferation of enthusiastic amateurs whose opinions form the basis of future facts rarely questioned by fans that care not for the iden****** and sacrifices of fighters, only the excitement they provide. Under the arena lights, fighters are gladiators in thrilling exchanges; away from the glare of those same lights is a shadow cast by the boxing business in which the majority of the real drama of the sport stirs. [details]
You’d expect Don King to step over a former charge and align himself with the victorious fighter, but fighters themselves, so often perceived as the sports downtrodden, are indeed capable of similar deeds. Jesse Reid transformed Lamon Brewster from journeyman to champion. That didn’t stop Brewster from firing Reid and citing God as his instructor. Brewster’s subsequent career death is proof indeed that the Lord works in mysterious ways.
The search for truth in boxing is long and often fruitless. Mainstream media neglect forced it onto the Internet, where it is maintained by a proliferation of enthusiastic amateurs whose opinions form the basis of future facts rarely questioned by fans that care not for the iden****** and sacrifices of fighters, only the excitement they provide. Under the arena lights, fighters are gladiators in thrilling exchanges; away from the glare of those same lights is a shadow cast by the boxing business in which the majority of the real drama of the sport stirs. [details]