Boxxer’s Ben Shalom: ‘I sacrificed my twenties, I sacrificed absolutely everything’
Ben Shalom knows what you’re thinking. “Where’s this guy come from? Where the f*** has he come from?”
It is the same question that arises when fans come across the 30-year-old’s company, Boxxer, which has emerged as one of the sport’s leading promotions since its inception as Ultimate Boxxer in 2018.
Back then, Shalom was just 23, the youngest licensed promoter in Britain. So, where did this guy come from?
Where the f*** did he come from?
The Mancunian recalls Amir Khan’s outings at the 2004 Athens Olympics as having generated his first memories of boxing, before the “ITV nights” that followed for Khan deepened Shalom’s intrigue in the sport. They were bouts
