Boxing or Martial Arts will always have a shady side, I don't see how you could get it clean.
But so many ordinary people enjoy the fights, I'm one of them.
Speaking of "always have a shady side," here's a link to a good article about Frankie Carbo and Jim Norris and how they locked up boxing for many years. Watching boxing on TV in the Fifties, you'd always see Norris's face in the credits before each bout"
https://boxeomundial.com/the-evil-empire-frankie-carbo-and-jim-norris/
