Next weekend heavyweight juggernauts Dereck Chisora and Tyson Fury meet for all the marbles at the Phones 4u Arena in Manchester.
And if further evidence were required that we’ve a real prize fight on our hands, the principals shook on a ?00 grand side bet at a heated press conference at a west London cinema last Monday.
While fighters are forbidden from betting on their fights with bookmakers, side bets are permitted.
Monday’s wager effectively takes us back to the sport’s bareknuckle origins in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, long before TV bounties, live gates and lucrative sponsorship deals.
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And if further evidence were required that we’ve a real prize fight on our hands, the principals shook on a ?00 grand side bet at a heated press conference at a west London cinema last Monday.
While fighters are forbidden from betting on their fights with bookmakers, side bets are permitted.
Monday’s wager effectively takes us back to the sport’s bareknuckle origins in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, long before TV bounties, live gates and lucrative sponsorship deals.
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