Boxing has been dying for 50 years. Maybe it should go ahead and unplug the ventilator. Bob Arum, Richard Schaefer, Dan Goossen and the other promoters can take time off. As it is, they are packing the rest of 2013 with the longest parade of appealing fights in recent memory, with Tim Bradley's victory over Ruslan Provodnikov, along with Mike Alvarado's rematch conquest of Brandon Rios, already jousting for Fight of the Year. Schaefer is close to nailing down a Sept. 14 run-in between light-welterweight champ Danny Garcia, the latest Philadelphia star, and the jaw-busting Lucas Matthysse of Argentina. That is a main event any other time, but Garcia-Matthysse would be the prelude to Floyd...
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