BOXING continues to embarrass itself.
No matter how disappointed and frustrated he was, it was embarrassing to see Anthony Joshua asking this cash-strapped country to feel desperately sorry for him after he had just made £32.5million for 36 minutes of boxing.
Joshua made £32.5m from his second bout with Usyk
The Brit suffered another defeat
It was equally embarrassing to hear Tyson Fury’s witless trash talk about “Ukrainian dossers” Oleksandr Usyk and Wladimir Klitschko when Ukrainian men, women and children are being raped, murdered and bombed.
I admire AJ and Fury. They have transformed and invigorated the sport I love.
Tyson spoke incredibly movingly about knife crime when his cousin was murdered.
But please show a little imagination, will you?
Don’t ask us to feel sorry for you when you have more money than you will ever know what to do with, AJ.
Not when 22million people in your own country will not be able to pay their energy bills this winter.
And please dial down the trash talk about “Ukrainian dossers”, Tyson, at least for the duration of a war that is destroying the lives of millions of Ukrainians.
There is a real world beyond the boxing ring and people are suffering.
And the boxing industry should not meekly allow Saudi Arabia to replace Las Vegas and London as the venue of choice for big fights.
How many millions do the greedy b******s who run the fight game need?
