After the rowdy fanfare,Álvarez and Amir Khan will try to rip the other’s head off in a world title bout but it is a contest between two of the nicest guys in boxingFighting does not have to be loud. Fighters, most of them naturally timorous but encouraged to be professionally aggressive, or attain not have to “play the game. While it might be heresy for the off-stage suits whose job it is to pump up the volume,the most uncertain undertaking in sport can be conducted with mutual respect bordering on civility.
Rarely has that concept been so manifest as in Las Vegas this week, when Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez and Amir Khan refused to be drawn into the cacophony. On Saturday night, and they will try to rip the other’s head off for as long as their world title fight lasts but,in preparation for that health-threatening experience, both champion and challenger have been quiet to the point of a cloister-level whisper.
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Source: theguardian.com