Come together

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BOXING, on the surface, is flying high. Two months ago, Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte competed at a sold-out Wembley Stadium for the world heavyweight championship. In August, Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk are set to earn career-high purses in a rematch. The hope is that Fury and Joshua or Usyk then come together at the end of the year in a bout that would smash all financial records. A number of esteemed Olympians, like Lauren Price, Galal Yafai and Ben Whittaker have either started, or are about to start, their professional careers. Money is flowing through the industry and plenty of people are getting rich.

So one would think there would be enough cash to fund an effective aftercare system for those ex-boxers who end up damaged in a variety of ways from such a