If Boxers Weren't Boxers...

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Muhammad Ali - signwriter/artist

Riddick Bowe - burger flipper

Lennox Lewis - male prostitute

Valuev - circus freak (so what's changed?)

Sonny Liston - enforcer and strike breaker

Jack Dempsey - would have been a fighter whatever his actual profession, as would Roberto Duran, Julio Cesar Chavez etc

Ricky Hatton - Man City grounds steward

Mike Tyson - would be dead by now.

thats abit out of order

I know that it sounds out of order - but I saw him in a documentary (Little Prince Big Fight) which covered the build up and training for the Barerra fight, and I'm not joking, he seemed to be turning into a religious fanatic. He is also married to a cousin of a friend of mine.

It was all Allah this, Allah that, shouting religious slogans out at the camera etc - he also demanded that he recite passages of the Koran out before the fight, if you remember.

So - despite my poor way of putting it - I reckon that if naz was not a fighter, he would be one of the many radicalised British Muslims in places like Sheffield. Mayeb a suicide bomber was going too far, but some of the real bombers (from similar backgrounds and intellect), who were not successful enough to be world champion boxers, did go down that route.

I was not making any thicko assumptions just because he happens to be of yemeni extraction, rest assured.