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The lockdown which brought British boxing to another shuddering halt ends on Saturday night when Josh Warrington headlines the sport’s first promotion in the country since 19 December. It has been a long and depressing break and boxing returns looking even more bruised than before. The bleak news surrounding the fight game has rumbled on since the BBC’s recent Panorama investigation into the continuing involvement of Daniel Kinahan in boxing.
Kinahan’s list of alleged criminal activities are disturbing but, unless he is convicted in a court of law, he has made it clear that he will continue advising fighters and setting up lucrative bouts from his exile in Dubai. Boxing administrators have admitted they are powerless to intervene while Sky and BT Sport, who screen most promotions in this country, squirm in the shadows as they wait to see whether the stories dry up for a while to ease their collective conscience.
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