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Wounded Animals

@ElliotWorsell

Online Editor

WHEN so much of boxing’s intrigue and uniqueness is derived from its imperfections, it seems bizarre, and a tad naïve, to demand perfection from its participants. At best, they can strive to achieve a sort of perfection in the ring, yet to expect more than that from men and women who punch opponents in the head for money reveals an ignorance as to what it takes to become a boxer in the first place.

These, after all, are not “normal” men and women. There is a reason they, and not you or I, do what they do for a living. There is also a reason why, when they

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