FANTASTIC MR FOSTER

UNDERCARD

THE ring seemed smaller than usual, somehow. Without a crowd there was no place to hide, no cheers to amplify a good punch or jeers to mask a swing and a miss. All that was masked were the officials, the trainers and the select few working at ringside. And the fighters – conditioned to feed off the energy a live audience provides – could draw only on that smattering of masked men for encouragement.

With all that in mind, both   and are to be commended for going about their business so efficiently. In this brave new world orchestrated by Queensberry Promotions’ Frank Warren and Andy Ayling, with help from Robert Smith of the British