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By Jake Donovan - You’d have to be pretty sick to wish death upon even your worst enemy, but the truth of the matter is that the subject at least provided headlines this time a year ago.
The summer schedule was only slightly more active, but there’s no denying that there was plenty to talk about last July, even if often in the most morbid sense. The deaths of Alexis Arguello, Arturo Gatti and Vernon Forrest (among many others in a brutally fatal July 2009) sent shockwaves through the boxing world, one still reeling from the damage felt from the passing of non-boxing icons such as Michael Jackson and Steve McNair.
Thankfully, there has been no such news to report of this year, though a different kind of death lingers on – boxing fans growing bored to death with what has been offered this summer.
It’s not uncommon for boxing fans to suffer through the summer doldrums, but there’s almost always something else on which to focus our attention. Two years ago, it was the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, China, though boxing fans’ collective fix came in the form of bitching about the way the game is played in the amateurs these days. [Click Here To Read More]
The summer schedule was only slightly more active, but there’s no denying that there was plenty to talk about last July, even if often in the most morbid sense. The deaths of Alexis Arguello, Arturo Gatti and Vernon Forrest (among many others in a brutally fatal July 2009) sent shockwaves through the boxing world, one still reeling from the damage felt from the passing of non-boxing icons such as Michael Jackson and Steve McNair.
Thankfully, there has been no such news to report of this year, though a different kind of death lingers on – boxing fans growing bored to death with what has been offered this summer.
It’s not uncommon for boxing fans to suffer through the summer doldrums, but there’s almost always something else on which to focus our attention. Two years ago, it was the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, China, though boxing fans’ collective fix came in the form of bitching about the way the game is played in the amateurs these days. [Click Here To Read More]
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