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Podcast: BBCollective
Episode: Fat City: Heavyweight History in Sensitive Settings
Description: Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week it is the latest installment in our season-wide focus on sportswashing, with the spotlight focused on boxing. Perhaps the sport’s preeminent power-broker, promoter Eddie Hearn has staged two heavyweight championship fights: a 2019 tilt featuring Andy Ruiz and Anthony Joshua and a 2022 bout between the aforementioned Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia. How and why these fights, contested for the sport’s showcase prize, could occur in such a locale with a record so poor on human rights set the table for a conversation that works in reverse chro...