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Wednesday 14 august 2019

Boxing

pays price 1st in AL Central

chasing

dollars

in Saudi

Arabia

By TIM DAHLBERG
AP Sports Columnist
There's nothing new about
those who make their living
in sports chasing every dol-
lar they can.
NFL owners do it every time
they threaten to devastate
a city by moving a team to
greener pastures. Baseball
does it by signing lucrative
broadcast agreement that
make it more expensive —
and sometimes impossible
— to follow the team you
love.
So in a perfect world, what
Eddie Hearn is doing with
the big heavyweight fight
in Saudi Arabia he is pro-
moting isn't particularly
groundbreaking or outra-
geous. It has a rich history in
boxing, most notably when
Muhammad Ali led a cara-
van to what was then Zaire
during Mobuto Sese Seko's
dictatorship to knock out
George Foreman in a 1974
fight that will live forever as
the "Rumble in the Jungle."
Somehow, "Clash on the
Dunes" just doesn't have
the same ring. And it's not
a perfect world, particu-
larly in a country noted for
human rights abuses.
Unfortunately, Hearn just
doesn't seem to get it
when asked why — outside
of the obvious answer of
money — Anthony Joshua
and Andy Ruiz Jr. will find
themselves fighting their Indians top BoSox 6-5
heavyweight title rematch
on Dec. 7 in, of all places,
Saudi Arabia. on Santana walk-off
Selling out to the highest
bidder sometimes comes
with a price of its own. Cleveland Indians' Tyler Naquin catches a ball hit by Boston Red Sox's J.D. Martinez on the eighth inning of a baseball game, Mon-
day, Aug. 12, 2019, in Cleveland. Martinez was out on the play.
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