Boxing is stuck in a continuous loop and once again the wrong person is leaving

It didn’t take long for the white noise and changing air pressure from almost 20,000 people screaming inside Madison Square Garden at Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano, a sensation that filled the senses for days, to evaporate into the ether.
Irish boxing’s magical way of toying with the mind – Katie’s majesty in the professional ranks, drawing the attention of the world, before three days later Bernard Dunne’s resignation from high performance boxing concluded another cheerless chapter in the sport.
Both events in their own way were wearily Groundhog Day, Katie soaring, Irish boxing flat-lining.
For many people and many reasons that was a buzz wrecker, a head spinner that even exhausted Oscar Wilde’s aphorism of losing two parents being careless. Dunne is the third talent to unhappily follow the path away from elite Irish boxing following the departures Gary Keegan and Billy Walsh.
Dunne, who led an Irish …

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