Smile: Boxing is magic

http://www.boxing.com/banish_those_bradley_blues_five_reasons_to_smile.html It’s been a hard week—year? decade?—to be a boxing fan, not least for Timothy Bradley himself. Rapidly and undeservedly becoming the villain in the piece due to his dogged but understandable determination to insist that he won a fight we all know he lost, the new WBO welterweight champion of the world is feeling it. “I am sick of it. I just want to fight the best fights out there for me and my family and the fans out there. I am at the point where I am losing my love for boxing.” Tim, we know how you feel. But it isn’t all bad. What’s to love about a sport that has let down so many fans this week and perhaps worse than that, the fighters themselves? Plenty. Today, right now, this minute, we are in love with a sport awash with good news, good people, and plenty to look forwards to. So put your feet up, relax, and forget about the failed drugs tests, the cheats, the horrible decisions, the mismatches and, my favorite, the superfights that just won’t happen. Here are five reasons to smile.