conflation of politics and pugilism was made by Idi Amin. "Boxing is like politics — you try to knock out your opponents," said the butcher of Uganda, famously photographed by the late Monte Fresco as he engaged in mock fisticuffs with Ian
Wooldridge.Such wisdom has more recently been tested by Manny Pacquiao, who has embraced public service in his native Philippines with the ardour one might expect of a figure anointed by his people as a
semi-deity. And yet it is Ukraine's Vitali Klitschko, who, at 42, confirmed this week that he had all but turned his back on the ring, who
could savour the greatest success in a very different form of canvassing
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