ROAD TO RECOVERY
THE moment Nathan Gorman thought would never come came midway through the fifth round.
On his back after taking a huge right to the temple and aware time was against him, he rolled onto his knees and placed his gloved fists on the canvas. He tried to keep count with the referee’s outstretched fingers as he pushed himself onto all fours then up through the fog and the blood until he emerged on two feet. Dazed but undertstanding what was happening, he shook his head and looked again at those outstretched fingers as they waved the fight off.
“[The referee] Victor Loughlin said something to me that I’ll never forget,” Gorman tells Boxing News about the moment he lost his unbeaten record. “He went, ‘No, son, it’s not there tonight.’ I remember him saying those words so clearly and he was right. Devastation hits you all over. It was just me, it was down to me, there’s no team, it’s just you and the
