Joshua Buatsi on Dan Azeez: ‘Even a good mate will try to hurt you’
“Just imagine you’re fighting your mate – a good mate of yours,” Joshua Buatsi instructs The Independent over the phone. Try it for yourself now. Maybe it’s a lifelong friend, your favourite colleague, or a sibling. “Imagine it’s at a big arena, the lights are bright, it’s on national TV, you have small gloves on, and they’re trying to hurt you.”
This would be the moral dilemma that Buatsi would be facing on Saturday, if only he saw any dilemma in punching his friend Dan Azeez in the face.
“You’re gonna fight back,” Buatsi continues. “I don’t know how competitive your spirit
