‘RETRIBUTION IS ON THE MENU’
WHEN asked if training longtime friend (and former opponent) Deontay Wilder for his upcoming title fight with Tyson Fury satisfies that boxing itch only former fighters have for the sport, Malik Scott says it does, but with an explanation attached to it.
“It satisfied it to another level from my perspective because I’m a boxing geek,” he said. “I’m a boxing nerd from a teacher’s standpoint of things. I love to film study and go and drill my fighters on the things that I think will work for his body type, for his skill set. So, my itch is being scratched every single day. Whether I’m fighting, whether I’m training, whether I’m doing film study, whether I’m trying on clothes, whether I’m talking to myself, I’m a pure boxing person.”
Thirty years in the game will get that bug into your bloodstream and it will never leave. That leads some, like 58-year-old Evander Holyfield, to want to still compete, and we all saw how that turned out. Luckily for the 40-year-old Scott, after his final bout in 2016 against Luis Ortiz, that was it for him as an active competitor, even if this unofficial retirement didn’t come about from a lack of trying.
“After that fight, I went and I trained in different training camps, I continued to look for fights, and I continued to try to get fights,”
