Surely it wasn’t supposed to be like this. Zuffa Boxing was expected to storm through the sport, sweeping aside the old guard, rewriting the rules (literally) and leaving boxing’s traditional powerbrokers wondering what had hit them. Instead, just months into the great revolution, there are cracks. It’s not over, by any stretch, but the waters are choppy.
(I spoke to Dan Rafael of Fight Freaks Unite about Zuffa Boxing and Shakur Stevenson)
