A megalomaniacal guy who didn’t finish eighth grade but likes to get drunk at strip clubs and cut 50 pounds every training camp is the antithesis of what we seek. While no one fighter springs to mind as quite that bad, we should concede most every American prizefighter has at least one of those, ah, qualities.
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We can put marriage and alcohol together not because they are inherently correlated but because so many fighters learn to drink in strip clubs – a bad arrangement. But a boxing column is nowhere to be prudish. If a world champion wants to enjoy a few years of drunken promiscuity, he should go right ahead but never mistake it for a permanent lifestyle. Sixty years-old and regularly drunk by the time Trixxxie takes the stage is a living antonym for the word “contentment.”
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