STANDING 6ft 4ins and weighing more than 17 stone, Jared Anderson is not exactly inconspicuous, but the rising star of American heavyweight boxing wishes he did not burn so brightly. In fact, he hopes that by the age of just 26, he will have faded away completely.
While most in his position would be boastfully predicting a decade of dominance punctuated by countless belts and crossover fame, 23-year-old Anderson has gone completely the other way.
“I only do this because I’m stuck with it,” he says with a shrug.
That initial adhesion happened when he was just eight years old. His first bout came about a year later and, by the age of 15, when he won a national
