CMXsports Sugar 'N ****e: The Legend of Roy

[ProBox1]

The business of building a boxing legacy is one filled with monstrous quicksand, its particles shifting rapidly. Within the course of one week boxing fans have witnessed one of boxing’s unsung warriors, Bernard Hopkins, become a gold leaf-fringed legend by practicing his unique form of acupuncture on Oscar De La Hoya and the gilt of greatness of another, Roy Jones Jr., tarnished by being knocked out for the second consecutive time. [details]

[grayfist]

Legends are notorious for their often having been woven out of whole cloth.

To shift metaphore, they're often a concoction of outright lies, half truths and a dash of truth--- the last one to make the thing potable, but just barely. When one drinks too much of them, they make one dizzy and less able to distinguish falsehoods from reality. A really heady brew, that! But that's not all! The crazier part is that legends taste so well, so many of us gullible fans dip into their wellspring and quaff!!!