Oliver Brown
9 articles · Telegraph.co.uk
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Crossover boxing freak shows like Joshua-Ngannou should be stopped before it is too late
By Oliver Brown
Ngannou’s out cold, ladies and gentlemen! He’s not even moving!” This was how the DAZN commentator salivated over the sight of Francis Ngannou lying motionless on the Riyadh canvas. Out cold even…
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If Anthony Joshua beats Kubrat Pulev, not a second should be wasted in arranging Wembley showdown with Tyson Fury
By Oliver Brown
For a fight doubling as a loveless business obligation, a champion’s fulfilment of a mandatory challenge en route to more lavish pay-days, Anthony Joshua’s world heavyweight title defence against Kubrat Pulev has…
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Mike Tyson regarded Diego Maradona as a kindred spirit – but Tyson is notorious for vastly different reasons
By Oliver Brown
After they both became world champions in 1986, Mike Tyson and Diego Maradona found themselves drawn together, identifying with each other’s destructive talents, destitute backgrounds, and with their shared appetite for darkness.…
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Mayweather vs McGregor was an unedifying cash-driven mismatch, more Dancing with the Stars than elite sport
By Oliver Brown
?My ideal last dance partner,? Floyd Mayweather said of Conor McGregor, which seemed as apt a label as any. For as a showpiece his 10-round victory owed more to Dancing with the…
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Money-grabbing Floyd Mayweather is just a blinged-up David Brent
By Oliver Brown
On Friday night, Floyd Mayweather?s theatre of the absurd takes its most tragicomic turn yet. His self-styled ?victory tour? of the UK ? one where he charges his own fans up to…
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Floyd Mayweather will never be forgiven for delivering knock-out blow to boxing’s romantic ideal
By Oliver Brown
Folded into all the venom and vitriol at Floyd Mayweather, who at face value has done nothing more than win a fight very clinically, is an element of unsatisfied bloodlust. ?C?mon, Floyd,?…
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Fighting for boxings future: The showdown of the century heats up
By Oliver Brown
The MayPac showdown this weekend may well be the bout of the century so far, writes Oliver Brown from Las Vegas. But the real worry for the tainted sport is what happens…
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Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao: Boxing has lost itself to money men in the Wild West
By Oliver Brown
Since Floyd Mayweather crows that it is his quest to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary, it follows that his showdown with Manny Pacquiao has morphed into a sui generis spectacular, an…
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Mayweather v Pacquiao: Lionisation of Floyd Mayweather makes for a strange and tawdry spectacle
By Oliver Brown
The lionisation of Floyd Mayweather can make for a strange and tawdry spectacle. He is venerated by his disciples as a man of mystique, even when he plays up to his vulgarian…