Anno Domini Two Thousand and Twelve dawns with a shadow cast over boxing by, of all people, the most prestigious of the world championship sanctioning bodies.
The hard old game has enough detractors without the president of the WBC, Jose Sulaiman, inferring that Floyd Mayweather’s battering of the mother of his children is not a serious enough crime to warrant him being stripped of his welterweight title.
WBC regulations require the removal of their belt from a convicted felon, which Floyd Jnr became when he agreed a plea bargain under which he begins a three-month spell in prison starting on January 6.
