Relating to the controversial boxing match between Sonny Bill Williams and Francois Botha:
“The whole performance was degrading to the sport of boxing. It was a joke.”
Oh dear.
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I didn’t understand your point Peter?
I thought it was a farce, as did a lot of people….
It was a farce, David.
My (pretty minor) point is that ‘professional’ boxing already has a degraded reputation … as irredeemably crooked and corrupt … leaving moot Bob Jones’s complaint that last night’s burlesque somehow injures it further.
– P
Ahem … methinks professional sport has a degraded reputation … joining the rest of the neo liberal capitalist sewer pipe leading to … people like Sonny Bill Williams and Khoder Nasser …
Isnt all of it now like WWF … all fur coat and no knickers …
A “sewer pipe’ it may be … but a “neo liberal capitalist sewer pipe”?
Homo sapiens: Worst. Species. Ever.
I chuckled at your “all fur coat…” image. Had not heard that before.
– P
i have to get my downmarket political jibes in pete … its the price you pay for entertaining gadflies like me …
Well it does injure it ‘further’. by rigging results during Bouts. So arrogantly directly in front of the public.
Boxing is a joke so is SBW.