Within Paris’s Salon Des Miroirs, a suitably chosen venue for a sport much in need of self-reflection, a Greek gynaecologist and obstetrician who in his spare time runs the European Boxing Federation stepped forward to explain the difference between a man and a woman.

As Dr Ioannis Filippatos reasoned, after performing hundreds of surgeries and delivering countless babies during a 30-year medical career, “I know who is woman and men.”

There is no doubt the doctor knows his way around female anatomy. Gesturing towards the lower midriff of one sports journalist who wanted to know why women’s boxing found........

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