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IT has not been the year anyone expected. In 2019, after winning the Ultimate Boxxer tournament and advancing his record to 10-0, British middleweight Derrick Osaze was looking to push on to title challenges.
“I feel like I’m a new school boxer with an old school mentality. I just want to win belts and titles. I’m not chasing certain fights,” Osaze tells Boxing News.
But then the coronavirus pandemic descended and so life, and boxing, was put on hold. Osaze could not preach in person as a pastor at his church. “Church is like an escape for me, it’s like a release,” he said. “Missing the community aspect I think has been the biggest thing.”
His streams of income from boxing and youth work also dried up. “Outside of boxing I run my own business called AIM Youth, so an alternate education provider. So I go into schools regularly do mentoring sessions,
