'I felt like Mike Tyson': how a novice boxer fell in love with the sweet science

17 August 2019 10:00
I hadn’t been in a fight since I was seven and my mum still gave me a kiss on the cheek on my way out the door each morningI could tell you that I fell in love with boxing the first time I walked into a gym, but the first boxing gym I ever went to was in point of fact, an Edwardian bandstand.Fritzy was going to train my friend David and me at a local park; an elegant cricket ground ringed by bowing fig trees. I arrived half an hour early, a move I would later recognise as a classic symptom of nerves. I was worried Fritzy would find me wanting in some fundamental way; that he’d somehow know I hadn’t been in a fight since I was seven and that my mum still gave me a kiss on the cheek on my way out the door each morning. Related: Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig review – the flawed lord of the ring Related: No Win Race by Derek A Bardowell review – a painful reflection of racism in British sport Related: Knockout blows: lessons from my first time inside the ring Continue readingread full article

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