“Perhaps politics is all that remains for the Senator. A different public service, one less exacting, less dangerous. The crowds, they will always be there—ever devoted, ever grateful, many of them looking to him for more than a spectacle, more than a symbol of pride. That kind of responsibility is difficult to ignore. So maybe it is time for a life of shaking hands instead of wrapping them. Perhaps Manny Pacquiao is finished as a prizefighter.”

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“William Quintana’s story begins before there is a William Quintana, back in San Jose, Costa Rica, when the Sanchez-Gutierrez children, Willie, Jorge, Giovanni, and Alexis, are taken from their mother and placed in an orphanage. Quintana still doesn’t know why. “I think they saw my mother as unfit. I don’t know. I think we were taken and trafficked. I don’t know.” Such beginnings demand an explanation. Alas, Quintana can only orbit one, within sight but out of reach, in taunting proximity.”

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“Regardless of who Davis is fighting, that snarling disposition helps explain why he is so popular. The impulse might be to suggest Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s mentorship has made Davis a draw. Mayweather is a master of self-promotion, having created an entire generation of Mayweather fans who left the sport when he did, who return to it when he does. But the contrivance that made the “Pretty Boy” “Money” is missing from Davis. There is little performance to him beyond the one fixed between the bookending bells of ritualized violence.”

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