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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - “Now the day is come/Soon he will be released/
Glory hallelujah/We're building the perfect beast.”
And with those 26-year-old Don Henley lyrics swirling in my sun-scorched and sleep-deprived head, I’m back at the keyboard to consider a task whose mandate may or may not have been statistically necessitated at this point last week – constructing the ideal sanctioning body.
Of course, as with most mandates – be they political, popular or existential – some dissension exists. Some insist, with varying degrees of civility and grammatical correctness, that time spent initiating a quest for an idyllic organization would be better spent ignoring the practice altogether.
They’re simply unnecessary, the naysayers contend. And rather than reassembling the alphabet morass with designs on a better end product, the boards and nails should instead be tossed aside to allow the sport – particularly the most recognized top-shelf performers – more freedom to legislate themselves.
Just such an approach, at least according to message board respondent “ColWallace,” was set in motion during the run-up to this spring’s welterweight superfight in Las Vegas. [Click Here To Read More]
Glory hallelujah/We're building the perfect beast.”
And with those 26-year-old Don Henley lyrics swirling in my sun-scorched and sleep-deprived head, I’m back at the keyboard to consider a task whose mandate may or may not have been statistically necessitated at this point last week – constructing the ideal sanctioning body.
Of course, as with most mandates – be they political, popular or existential – some dissension exists. Some insist, with varying degrees of civility and grammatical correctness, that time spent initiating a quest for an idyllic organization would be better spent ignoring the practice altogether.
They’re simply unnecessary, the naysayers contend. And rather than reassembling the alphabet morass with designs on a better end product, the boards and nails should instead be tossed aside to allow the sport – particularly the most recognized top-shelf performers – more freedom to legislate themselves.
Just such an approach, at least according to message board respondent “ColWallace,” was set in motion during the run-up to this spring’s welterweight superfight in Las Vegas. [Click Here To Read More]
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