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My husband watches the fights; I don’t. I went to join him once after he’d watched a set of UFC fights with friends, and caught the last one accidentally – I’d hoped to miss them all.

It was awful.

So bloody. Seeing these young men give each other brain injuries for our enjoyment? It reminds me of To Kill a Mockingbird: “t’s morbid, watching a poor devil on trial for his life.

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Look at those folks, it’s like a Roman carnival”. We’re like the Roman throngs, watching the gladiators.

I can’t watch them without thinking: “It’s not rich boys getting into that ring.” As David Remnick writes: “Boxing has never been a sport of the middle class.

It is a game for the poor, the lottery player, the all-or-nothing-at-all young men who risk their health for the infinitesimally small chance of riches and glory.”

The great boxers, the ones we think of – Smokin’ Joe, Sugar Ray (Leonard and Rob