![]() This latest episode, which obviously reflects badly on boxing, has prompted another rant from a very readable writer, if something of a sporting snowflake, who under the headline "the whole sport has to be banned" argues "rarely has the case against boxing been made more eloquently than this week by the sport itself. "I could no longer engage in a celebration of brain damage." Two years ago he declared he would never again watch boxing. Inevitably, Matt Dickinson, senior sports writer at The Times was quick to leap aboard the ban-wagon. ![]() Once again it has become an easy target for the doomsayers. ![]() The revelation that British boxer Conor Benn, welterweight son of former champion Nigel, had failed a drugs test which caused his catchweight contest with Chris Eubank Junior to be called off by the British Boxing Board of Control, has resulted in an hysterical assault on boxing itself with renewed calls to get it to be abolished. If only that philosophy had been adopted by fighters that followed then the sport would not have been enmeshed in the opprobrium it finds itself today. Angelo Dundee, the fistic guru who helped mould Muhammad Ali into The Greatest was once asked whether the three-times world heavyweight champion had ever used drugs.
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