By Simon Smale, ABC Australia
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Analysis - If nothing else, there is one indisputable truth about the sport of boxing - it is not a sport that you play.
"You don't play boxing," five-weight world champion Sugar Ray Leonard once said, a sentiment similar to those echoed by countless fighters and pundits before and since.
"You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing."
The risks are enormous, and the examples of just how catastrophically things can turn when inside the squared circle are countless.
It's why Jake Paul's announced fight against Anthony Joshua is so reckless that foolish doesn't cover it.
Even to call it idiotic is kind.
The YouTuber-turned-upstart boxer has announced that he will step into the ring against the 2012 Olympic super heavyweight gold medallist and two-time unified heavyweight champion of the world at the Kaseya Center in Miami on December 19.
Boxing's propensity to plumb new depths of moral ambiguity is not new, and its shady and objectionable quest for ever larger purses at the expense of genuine sporting merit is a constant yet accepted gripe among f
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