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Mike Tyson v Roy Jones Jnr

BOXING provides an abundance of excuses to climb into the saddle of your moral high horse.

It is, after all, the back alley of sports, where decency is a midget in comparison to the indecency that too often predominates — this the product of a culture in which greed routinely outweighs honour by a factor of a hundred and more. 

Perhaps, though, the moral desert which boxing occupies is central to its fascination in an ever more censorious world in which to put a foot wrong is to suffer condign punishment.

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