Heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua
The head coach says relationship with owner Marinakis is ‘not so good’
WRITING in the Irish Times recently, Johnny Watterson deftly opined that “Boxing has always been the wild west of sport. Its dark underbelly, the guaranteed blood and the questionable morality has always been a bestseller.”
Another way of putting this is that boxing is the primus inter pares – first among equals – of sports when it comes to existing in a moral vacuum, impervious to the norms of conventional society, its cultural taboos and even at times its laws.
And though, normally, much like a 15-year-old masturbating under the duvet, boxing’s less-than-savoury aspects are concealed from public view, they do on occasion emerge into the open, shocking the more naive while confirming what the more cynical either suspected or already knew.
In recently published book Baddest Man, Mark Kriegel revisits the Faustian pact at the heart of Mike Tyson’s rise and the emotional fallout that followed, writes JOHN WIGHT
As we mark the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, JOHN WIGHT reflects on the enormity of the US decision to drop the atom bombs
From humble beginnings to becoming the undisputed super lightweight champion of the world, Josh Taylor’s career was marked by fire, ferocity, and national pride, writes JOHN WIGHT
Mary Kom’s fists made history in the boxing world. Malak Mesleh’s never got the chance. One story ends in glory, the other in grief — but both highlight the defiance of women who dare to fight, writes JOHN WIGHT
