MY boxing training today hits a little bit different. I get a call from Barry O’Connell, my trainer, asking would I mind sharing my session with Zak Chelli. The professional boxer from State of Mind fitness. The new British and Commonwealth super-middleweight champion. The boxer I just saw beat Jack Cullen in Liverpool. I laugh – surely, it’s Zak who should mind.
It does give Zak and I a chance to talk about his career – and for me to step-up my training game for a for a white-collar fight I might have at the end of April. This feels very much like being in at the deep end, I know the idea isn’t to keep up, but to observe.
