It’s a tale as old as boxing itself.
And they want a piece of it more than they care about the sport.
So they’ll pay boxers to take a dive.
With Terry Malloy inOn the Waterfront.
Luis “Mountain” Rivera inRequiem for a Heavyweight.
Only to later have to save him from rapey hillbillies.
Which, for my money, are the worst kind of hillbillies.
This was on the internet, where every whiff, miss and pulled punch can live on forever.
Instead, he quite literally pulled his punch.
There are no doubt plenty of other examples.
A lot more than actual punches landed.
And I’m sure they’ll be posted in the days to come.
But this is all the proof we need that we were had.
That the whole exhibition was a bag job.
Good luck with that, Goodell.
