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The problem is not that there aren’t enough people who care about helping downtrodden ex-fighters; it’s that few who do follow through on their words. Then again, hypocrisy is one of the most common tropes in boxing. Just note the parvenus who come around to the sport every decade or so promising reform but end up just as crooked as its longest-tenured amoralists. In a chaotic sport with no centralized governing body, whose “labor laws” (assuming they exist) are so antiquated that they would make even Lewis Hine wince, where backstabbing in the name of free enterprise is standard practice, it should not be so surprising, then, that such cavalier attitudes concerning the welfare of its alumni predominate. “Nobody’s held accountable,” Farrago fumed. “Once you step out of that ring, you’re done. Everybody walks away.”

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