WHETHER participant or spectator, a relationship with boxing requires a certain amount of delusion, the kind typically mastered by either a stuntman or a footballer’s wife. It requires an ability to ignore signs. It requires an ability to always find the silver lining.
From a boxer’s perspective, they must delude themselves into thinking they are invincible, infallible and will, despite the history of the sport and all the evidence available, never become one of the boxers either injured by it, broken by it, or killed by it. To train, and to focus, and to then hold it all
