LIMOND ZEST
OFTEN a child will embark on many of their greatest adventures behind a parent’s back, yet rarely do they end up in a boxing gym pursuing the very thing their father hoped would forever remain off limits.
Certainly, when former British and Commonwealth champion Willie Limond left for work one day, he wouldn’t have expected to later return to discover his sons, Jake and Drew, had found what he had for so long tried to hide from them.
“This isn’t what I wanted for my boys,” said Limond, meaning, of course, boxing. “I never took them to the gym or put them on this path. That was their mum. I was away working in Fort William at the time and when I came back I found out the boys had been to the boxing for two weeks. I was like, ‘What the f**k is going on? This wasn’t the plan.’”
Regardless, once both had been bitten by the boxing bug, that was it for the Limond boys. Now, with Jake 18 and Drew 16, and with both plotting what they hope will be successful careers (Drew as an amateur, Jake as a pro), their father has had to come to
