IT’S two o’clock on a Tuesday afternoon and Maxi Hughes is outside in his garden picking the apples that have fallen from his apple tree. It’s a laborious, surprisingly physical task, yet one made all the easier by virtue of the fact he has time on his hands and will eat as many of the apples as he throws away.
With a fight behind him, and no future fight scheduled, Hughes can afford to take his time and indulge in ways he could not before beating Kid Galahad on September 24. This means he spends his days “pottering around the garden” ahead of collecting his children from school. It also means he mourns the loss of every apple too damaged to be eaten.
“It’s a right waste because they’re ‘eatable’ ones, but there’s just too many,” he tells Boxing News. “My missus was under strict instructions before my fight not to make any apple crumble, because I’ll eat it if it’s in the house. Since the fight (a fight Hughes won by majority decision), though, we’ve had a few apple crumbles and she’s made apple puree for our porridge in the morning.
“Other than that, they
