Elliot Worsell
@ElliotWorsell
Online Editor
WHEN asked about nerves and his greatest pre-fight fear, what shocked me most was the specificity of the answer. Rather than simply saying, “My fear was losing and I was nervous because I wanted to avoid that,” George Groves, it seemed, had in his head a much clearer nightmare, never more so than before his 2011 fight against bitter rival James Degale. That, of all his fights, was one Groves couldn’t afford to lose, not with so much history between them and so many insults exchanged. Yet there are of course many ways to
