The Transnational Boxing Review Board’s newest recruit, Paul Gibson, catches up with the group’s founding members to discuss their plans to revolutionise boxing
By Paul Gibson for The Balls of Wrath, part of the Guardian Sport Network
Imagine a world where at least four athletes walk away from each event in the Olympic Games with shiny gold medals. Where on a Sunday evening every April at Augusta National, four or five different golfers pull out of Magnolia Lane and head for home with a winners’ cheque tucked into the breast pocket of their matching green jackets. Where at the end of every gruelling nine-month, 38-match football season, the top four teams in the league receive trophies and the title, champion. Better still, they don’t even have to play each other to claim the top prize.
Is your imagination vivid enough to conjure up such a far-out, zany, make-believe land? Or are you simply picturing the reality of modern-day prize fighting?
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