IF YOU had visited Dan Azeez during this latest training camp, you might have just found him lying flat on his back in the middle of the ring.
That was not because he was routinely dropped by his sparring partners throughout the past few months but rather due to the latest member of his training team – a sports psychologist.
There was a time when such a move was seen as a sign of weakness. Indeed, when Carl Froch employed one ahead of his 2014 rematch with George Groves, the challenger used the appointment as a stick with which to beat the champion.
A few months later, Froch knocked Groves out at Wembley.
So avid is Azeez’s pursuit of staying injury-free that he will do absolutely anything if it might provide him with ‘even an extra one per cent’. Of course, this weekend’s fight against Joshua Buatsi was supposed to take place back in October, but a last-minute back injury forced Azeez to withdraw.
Now, 15 weeks later, the pair will finally meet at Wembley Arena for
