Elliot Worsell
@ElliotWorsell
Online Editor
“CAREFUL you don’t cut me,” said Johnny Greaves as his cutman, Jason Fielding, applied Vaseline to his face. “I’ve got skin like rice paper.”
If, as far as requests go, that sounds unusual coming from a boxer in the presence of their cutman – whose very job it is to fix cuts, not cause them – it’s because it is. However, Johnny Greaves, in 2012, was one of the more unusual characters in British boxing, made that way by the very unusual nature of his job.
Indeed, Greaves, per the requirements of this job, arrived in Sheffield one summer night in 2012 content to suffer defeat but hoping the defeat would
