CRITICISM from fans was once consigned to the letters’ pages of a boxing magazine or an animated chat over a pint down the local pub. Today, with social media channels still astonishingly lax when it comes to allowing anyone to abuse anyone on a public platform, it’s widespread.
Joe Joyce was the latest boxer to feel the wrath after underdog Zilhei Zhang shut the Londoner’s right eye with a steady stream of straight left hands on Saturday night. That Joyce ultimately lost a fight was no big surprise; after all, anyone so brazenly reliant on their head as a line of defence was never going to retire undefeated. Nonetheless, Zhang being
