Spare airfield: why Roy Jones became a Russian

Russian President Vladimir Putin and boxer Roy Jones in Sevastopol.

Reuters/Aleksey Nikolskyi/Ria Novosti/Kremlin

Vladimir Putin granted Russian citizenship to American Roy Jones - a man who is often called the best professional boxer in the history of sports. Now Roya is 46 years old, his career was declining back in the mid-2000s, but for some reason he still enters the ring. In his homeland, Jones turned into a typical shot down pilot: every year he is less and less interesting to the public, and his last battles have become absolutely ordinary events. Russia has become a spare airfield for the boxer. To be a new home for those whose best years, it seems, seems to be a tradition for our country. And you can’t call her good.

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