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Stop this grisly exhibition

EXHIBITION can mean different things. It can mean a public display of items of interest. It can mean a display of a skill or quality or emotion. In boxing, it essentially means that anything goes. It means that regulations do not exist. It means that common sense will not be applied. It means that 58-year-old men can be pummelled by younger men, and it means, in perhaps the only nod to an acceptable definition of the word, people will watch.

Ryan Kavanaugh and his Triller outfit – who staged Vitor Belfort vs Evander Holyfield in Florida – have no place

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