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Boxing makes a spectacle of itself

Floyd Mayweather Jr., left, fights Conor McGregor in a super welterweight boxing match Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, in Las ...

Since the AFL season has come to a hiatus, and A League season hasn't started yet, and the Test cricket season has but we'd rather not talk about it, and the basketball season may or may not have started - it's hard to say - let's seize the chance to do what all good sports adminstrators do: duck over to America for a weekend to "study" the latest in sports promotion.

In the age of fake news, this fight serves up fake sport

Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor.

​In the age of fake news, this fight serves up fake sport Far from being 'the biggest sporting event of our lifetimes', Mayweather v McGregor is a lucrative pantomime that reflects the worst excesses of a materialistic age