It took Anthony Joshua 292 seconds to end the 94-day reign of the luckiest heavyweight champion in the tainted, glorious and greedy history of the sport.
Charles Martin started to box to get rich, which he achieved on Saturday night at the O2 when he was gifted $5million dollars for his convenient part in Joshua's rise. Martin entered the ring as the 13th IBF heavyweight champion since the troubled sanctioning body muscled in on the boxing game back in 1983; he left the ring as their worst champion.
Joshua entered the ring camouflaged in a flowing white robe that was both regal and light; Martin ambled through his ringwalk wearing a tacky crown that resembled the top prize from a loyalty award scheme at Burger King. A glance at his soft belly and tiny shorts appeared to confirm reports that Martin's training regime had involved several battles with the fridge.
It looked like Martin's snug shorts had been made to fit his desired weight, but were instead left packed and bulging from an inability to curb his desires for food. It was just another tiny rumour during the days before the fight that added further insult to his shameful collapse.
However, there was no deceit involved, no dark arts in play to transform a fighter like Martin from the underwhelming periphery to main attraction last Saturday. It was strictly business because of a moral loophole in the boxing world that allows any fighter, with connections, to get a shot at the main prize in a sport where you get what you negotiate and not what you deserve. Martin's people - a swollen grinning troupe before the fight - secured him the riches but disgracefully failed to prepare him for the fight.
Opening
up about his astonishing comeback and fitness level at 45, Australian
spinner Brad Hogg today said he gets a healthy dose of constant
encouragement from his wife that keeps him going, but conceded he
regrets quitting Test cricket after just seven outings.
Hogg is presently enjoying his Indian Premier League stint at Kolkata Knight Riders.
“It’s good to be playing the game with someone who’s pushing you to
go as far as you want. There’s talk about me when I’m going to stop and
she just says play as long as you possibly can. We’re going to try get
there to fifty,” Hogg said on the eve of their match against Mumbai
Indians.
Hogg was the pick of KKR bowler with figures of 3/19 as Delhi Daredevils succumbed to 98 to suffer a nine-wicket defeat in their IPL opener.
Having spent much time in the shadow of the legendary Shane Warne, Hogg had called it quits in 2008 after just seven Tests and 123 ODIs.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/ipl-2016-its-a-respectful-competition-between-sunil-narine-and-me-says-brad-hogg/#sthash.2byoRwAW.dpuf
Hogg is presently enjoying his Indian Premier League stint at Kolkata Knight Riders.
Hogg was the pick of KKR bowler with figures of 3/19 as Delhi Daredevils succumbed to 98 to suffer a nine-wicket defeat in their IPL opener.
Having spent much time in the shadow of the legendary Shane Warne, Hogg had called it quits in 2008 after just seven Tests and 123 ODIs.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/ipl-2016-its-a-respectful-competition-between-sunil-narine-and-me-says-brad-hogg/#sthash.2byoRwAW.dpuf
Opening
up about his astonishing comeback and fitness level at 45, Australian
spinner Brad Hogg today said he gets a healthy dose of constant
encouragement from his wife that keeps him going, but conceded he
regrets quitting Test cricket after just seven outings.
Hogg is presently enjoying his Indian Premier League stint at Kolkata Knight Riders.
“It’s good to be playing the game with someone who’s pushing you to
go as far as you want. There’s talk about me when I’m going to stop and
she just says play as long as you possibly can. We’re going to try get
there to fifty,” Hogg said on the eve of their match against Mumbai
Indians.
Hogg was the pick of KKR bowler with figures of 3/19 as Delhi Daredevils succumbed to 98 to suffer a nine-wicket defeat in their IPL opener.
Having spent much time in the shadow of the legendary Shane Warne, Hogg had called it quits in 2008 after just seven Tests and 123 ODIs.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/ipl-2016-its-a-respectful-competition-between-sunil-narine-and-me-says-brad-hogg/#sthash.2byoRwAW.dpuf
Hogg is presently enjoying his Indian Premier League stint at Kolkata Knight Riders.
Hogg was the pick of KKR bowler with figures of 3/19 as Delhi Daredevils succumbed to 98 to suffer a nine-wicket defeat in their IPL opener.
Having spent much time in the shadow of the legendary Shane Warne, Hogg had called it quits in 2008 after just seven Tests and 123 ODIs.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/ipl-2016-its-a-respectful-competition-between-sunil-narine-and-me-says-brad-hogg/#sthash.2byoRwAW.dpuf
Opening
up about his astonishing comeback and fitness level at 45, Australian
spinner Brad Hogg today said he gets a healthy dose of constant
encouragement from his wife that keeps him going, but conceded he
regrets quitting Test cricket after just seven outings.
Hogg is presently enjoying his Indian Premier League stint at Kolkata Knight Riders.
“It’s good to be playing the game with someone who’s pushing you to
go as far as you want. There’s talk about me when I’m going to stop and
she just says play as long as you possibly can. We’re going to try get
there to fifty,” Hogg said on the eve of their match against Mumbai
Indians.
Hogg was the pick of KKR bowler with figures of 3/19 as Delhi Daredevils succumbed to 98 to suffer a nine-wicket defeat in their IPL opener.
Having spent much time in the shadow of the legendary Shane Warne, Hogg had called it quits in 2008 after just seven Tests and 123 ODIs.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/ipl-2016-its-a-respectful-competition-between-sunil-narine-and-me-says-brad-hogg/#sthash.2byoRwAW.dpuf
Hogg is presently enjoying his Indian Premier League stint at Kolkata Knight Riders.
Hogg was the pick of KKR bowler with figures of 3/19 as Delhi Daredevils succumbed to 98 to suffer a nine-wicket defeat in their IPL opener.
Having spent much time in the shadow of the legendary Shane Warne, Hogg had called it quits in 2008 after just seven Tests and 123 ODIs.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/ipl-2016-its-a-respectful-competition-between-sunil-narine-and-me-says-brad-hogg/#sthash.2byoRwAW.dpuf
Opening
up about his astonishing comeback and fitness level at 45, Australian
spinner Brad Hogg today said he gets a healthy dose of constant
encouragement from his wife that keeps him going, but conceded he
regrets quitting Test cricket after just seven outings.
Hogg is presently enjoying his Indian Premier League stint at Kolkata Knight Riders.
“It’s good to be playing the game with someone who’s pushing you to
go as far as you want. There’s talk about me when I’m going to stop and
she just says play as long as you possibly can. We’re going to try get
there to fifty,” Hogg said on the eve of their match against Mumbai
Indians.
Hogg was the pick of KKR bowler with figures of 3/19 as Delhi Daredevils succumbed to 98 to suffer a nine-wicket defeat in their IPL opener.
Having spent much time in the shadow of the legendary Shane Warne, Hogg had called it quits in 2008 after just seven Tests and 123 ODIs.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/ipl-2016-its-a-respectful-competition-between-sunil-narine-and-me-says-brad-hogg/#sthash.2byoRwAW.dpuf
Hogg is presently enjoying his Indian Premier League stint at Kolkata Knight Riders.
Hogg was the pick of KKR bowler with figures of 3/19 as Delhi Daredevils succumbed to 98 to suffer a nine-wicket defeat in their IPL opener.
Having spent much time in the shadow of the legendary Shane Warne, Hogg had called it quits in 2008 after just seven Tests and 123 ODIs.
- See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/ipl-2016-its-a-respectful-competition-between-sunil-narine-and-me-says-brad-hogg/#sthash.2byoRwAW.dpuf
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