The Hard Yards

FOR some boxers there is more at stake when fighting than there is for others. While the danger remains the same for all, some boxers, given everything they have sacrificed and all that is on the line, know they are just one defeat away from the end of a farfetched dream.

In the case of Salford’s Marc Leach, 18-1-1 (4), this is a thought he has had to entertain for much of his eight-year professional career. As a super-bantamweight, the 28-year-old finds himself plying his trade in a somewhat unglamorous division and