A BOXING fan teleported in time from, say, the 1950s to the present day, would no doubt be puzzled by many things. And boxingspecific, they might well be wondering what on earth was happening to the fight game.
I’m not referring to the internet, with boxing shows available on streaming services – things that would seem like sciencefiction to a person from decades past – but boxing events that would just seem, well, “strange”.
We have two such events on the horizon that certainly would not have occurred decades ago, when boxing was, shall we say, more traditional.
Jake Paul is due to meet Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis on November 14, with Atlanta the proposed location for their Netflix exhibition.
And, weirder yet, Floyd Mayweather, 48, and Mike Tyson, 59, have…
