SIX days after a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death on her way to school, light-heavyweight boxers Joshua Buatsi and Dan Azeez appeared at Croydon’s Boxpark, just a stone’s throw from the bus stop where the life of that girl, as well as the life of the boy who killed her, tragically ended.
Wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the message “Lives Not Knives”, the pair’s arrival was without doubt timely, both for the area and the sport itself. Because while it’s true there are bigger names than Buatsi and Azeez, and boxers who would have brought to Boxpark a much larger crowd, it is hard to think
