‘CONOR BENN WILL REPAY ME’

“IT’S crazy isn’t it? Boxing’s a crazy world.

I got Covid. I had both jabs and I didn’t get Covid until I had my jabs, then I had the two jabs and got it, but we went like a stack of dominos in the gym. We still don’t know who brought it in, it could have been me, you don’t know, but as soon as I had it everyone had it. John Ryder, Ted Cheeseman, Felix Cash and the last one to get it was Conor Benn. He didn’t get it at the same time as we all got it. I wish he had, because he got it the week of the fight [against Granados, which was postponed from Fight Camp], but he didn’t even know he had it until they tested him. Up until that point I’d been fortunate to keep it out of the gym. I’d introduced a lot of stringent rules, like no one to come to the gym from outside… I tried to get my boys to spar with each other and I disinfected the gym every day. Where my gym’s