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Professional boxing is no stranger to controversy. The British Medical Association, the trade union for doctors in the UK, has called for years for the sport to be banned due to its damaging effects. It has a higher potential for injury than any other contact sport.

Boxing encourages participants to knock out their opponent. Such conduct often involves the deliberate infliction of grievous bodily harm. Outside of the ring, this conduct could land you with a prison sentence. When boxers break the rules of a contest, there is also the potential for criminal charges.

Infamously, US boxer Luis Resto spent time in prison for assault after replacing the padding in his gloves with plaster before a 1983 fight. This seems like an obvious case for prosecution, but the line is not always so clear. Now, a doping scandal has raised the question: how does the law decide when sports violence or misdemeanours become criminal?

In October, welterweight contender Conor Benn failed two drug tests ahead of his highly anticipated bout with Chris Eubank Jr. A fighter failing a doping test is nothing new. But this information was revealed in a tabloid days before the fight, suggesting that without the expos, the bout would have gone ahead.

Unlicensed forms of boxing, such as white collar contests and resurgent bare-knuckle boxing are not so clearly exempt. The position of other combat sports such as Thai boxing and mixed martial arts is also uncertain. These are subject to varying degrees of regulation, and the senior courts in England and Wales have simply not yet had the opportunity to definitively rule on their lawfulness.

"Far and Away" is a movie that joins astonishing visual splendor with a story so simple-minded it seems intended for adolescents; watching it, I kept being reminded of the "Childhoods of Famous Americans" books, in which plucky young people made their way in life. It's depressing that such a lavish and expensive production, starring an important actor like Tom Cruise, could be devoted to such a shallow story. Do they think audiences have entirely lost their wits? The movie stars Cruise as Joseph, son of a poor working man in Ireland. When his father cannot pay the rent on the land, the family's home is burned down by goons working for the landlord.

Joseph vows vengeance and goes off to murder the man (and is bid a cheerful farewell by the entire village, so little does he conceal his intentions). But when he is discovered lurking in a stable and beaten to within an inch of his life by the sadistic overseer, he's taken into the landlord's mansion for treatment, and there he first becomes attracted to his rebellious, headstrong daughter Shannon, played by Nicole Kidman.

She is tired of being a proper, well-behaved young lady, and yearns to go to America, where she hears that land is being given away. Encountering Joseph by chance a little later in Dublin, she asks him to come along with her, and with nothing to lose, he does.

Their chance encounter is not an accident, but the basic strategy of the entire plot, which is a series of chance encounters. Perhaps that is because the story is so arbitrary and the characters so transparent that nothing that happens can be explained on any level higher than coincidence.

It is an ancient convention of such story formulas that the young man and woman (who anyone can see are destined for one another) must go through a period of mutual antagonism before - hello! - they realize they're in love. Landing in Boston, they find lodgings in a brothel, and young Joseph goes to work as a bare-knuckle fighter, gaining some local acclaim. Why a brothel and not a boarding house? The movie is desperate for local color.

Why, you might ask in the same vein, does Joseph become a boxer, instead of some more likely occupation, such as a street-cleaner, a hod-carrier or a longshoreman? Because the movie hasn't a clue who these people are, or why we should find them intrinsically interesting, and so it cobbles together cliches out of old boxing movies to provide a third-hand narrative and manufactured suspense.

Here's the test you can always apply to a boxing scene: Is the most important thing about the fight who wins, or why the hero is boxing? In "Raging Bull" it was the latter - what drove him to such punishment. In "Far and Away," it's who wins - and of course the outcome of every fight is determined entirely by the needs of the story. We even get the exhausted cliche in which the hero is pounded to a pulp before suddenly he gets really angry, and pounds the other guy to a pulp.

Joseph and Shannon eventually light out for the Oklahoma Territory, while meanwhile, in a series of parallel developments much beloved in such classics of my childhood as the Hardy Boys adventures, Shannon's parents and the evil overseer (who considers Shannon his intended) also decide to emigrate to America, whereupon of course they also head for Oklahoma, so that all of the characters can be involved in the same land rush. Give us a break.

Shannon's father, played by that fine actor Robert Prosky, is such a mass of contradictions and character tics that it's hard to see if anybody's at home, especially in the ludicrous Oklahoma scenes. Shannon and Joseph are equally dimwitted characters, completely the victims of the story, denied all personality attributes except those routinely assigned to captives of genre fiction. Do they realize they have nothing intelligent, witty or unexpected to say in the entire movie? Do they care? Does the audience? Maybe not. The movie's payoff is an impressive, beautiful highangle shot of an Oklahoma land rush, with hundreds of horsemen, wagons and runners all tearing through the sagebrush in search of a desirable homesite.

(Shannon's parents cheat and are not caught, in what has become by this time the movie's low-comedy double act.) Of course the land rush looks great. "Far and Away" is the first movie in many years to be photographed in 70mm (rather than being blown up to 70 from 35mm). It looks great. See it, if you must, in a theater with good projection.

If the late David Lean had not died before he could shoot it, his own planned 70mm epic, "Nostromo," might have been arriving in theaters about now. It would have been a reminder of the literate, thoughtful tradition of such Lean films as "Doctor Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia." Remembering them and looking at this credulous boy's story, I am depressed. Are audiences thought not capable of seeing great pictures and listening to great dialogue at the same time? Are they so impatient they have to be thrown boxing scenes instead of character scenes? Is there any purpose to this movie other than visual spectacle?

He's back! Artem lobov returns to the studio for episode #074 of Paddy Holohan's No Shame podcast. Since his first appearance on the show, Artem has become a father & discusses the joys of parenthood. Lobov, the longtime sparring partner of Conor McGregor, made a high profile switch from the UFC to Bare Knuckle FC earlier this year & tells Paddy of his plans to emulate the very first Bare knuckle champion, Irish American, John Sullivan, by claiming the BKFC Belt later in 2019.

After witnessing the birth of his son, Artem Maximus Junior, Lobov has a greater appreciation for women & explains how fighting is easy compared to bringing a child into the world, an experience which left the Russian Hammer requesting an extra epidural for himself while his girlfriend went through a grueling 38 hour labour.

Artem tells Paddy of the extra focus the birth of his son has given him, by simply wanting to spend more time at home, he's cut out alcohol in the process, improving his training regime & lifestyle as a whole.

Artem explains his decision to switch from UFC to Bare Knuckle & touches on that epic war of attrition with Jason Knight just a few weeks ago. He shares some insights into the fight, how he believes it should have been stopped long before the final bell & talks about the similarities between Bare Knuckle president David Feldman & Dana White, both being massive fans of combat sports.

Artem is set to take on Paulie Malignaggi, on June 22 & explains how he finds it difficult to be worried by any threat the former WBA welterweight champion may pose. He believes Paulie's inexperience in the trade of clinch, along with his lack of relevant fight fitness will prove costly for Malignaggi. Lobov reveals that there is a big difference in cardio between Bare Knuckle & MMA, a key take away from his first BKFC fight with Knight & one that he'll improve upon for his showdown bout with the 38 year old, Malignaggi.

The Russian Hammer criticises the current state of professional boxing, explaining how the sport fails to look after their athletes financially. Artem believes the time for padding records has passed, as many undefeated boxers are broke from the lack of serious opposition.

The Russian Hammer highlights that the amateur game is the time to learn a fighters trade & any athlete that turns professional should want nothing other than the toughest test. He believes combat sport is entering an age where fans just want to see good fights between evenly matched opponents, a reason why the UFC has thrived in recent years.

Paddy recalls some of Artem's epic sparring sessions with Conor McGregor over the years with both men going for each other & Lobov talks of the Notorious' passion for fighting, still to this day & says Conor's enthusiasm for the fight game is undiminished.

Artem & Paddy close the show by discussing performance enhancing drugs & T.J. Dillashaw's two year ban for EPO. Artem feels it should have been a lifetime ban as it goes against everything a true warrior stands for. Lobov discusses his sympathy for Cody Garbrandt & believes that half of Dillashaw's earnings, while taking banned substances, should go to Garbrandt with the other half going towards funding for better drug tests to ensure cheaters are kicked out of the fight game once & for all.

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