Boxing Has Never Been Less Relevant

The sweet science only lives on in fiction.

Will Leitch

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If you were to experience sports entirely through your popular entertainment, you would think the sport of boxing is thriving right now. Over the last year, we have seen:

A series about Mike Tyson starring Trevante Rhodes from Moonlight:

A movie about George Foreman:

Another Mark Wahlberg movie about a boxer:

And, of course, the upcoming Creed III, out this weekend, in which Michael B. Jordan, one of the biggest movie stars…

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Will Leitch

Author of six books, including “How Lucky” and "The Time Has Come." NYMag/MLB.. Founder, Deadspin. https://williamfleitch.substack.com