The head coach says relationship with owner Marinakis is ‘not so good’
IMAGINE that it’s last Sunday morning and you’re Dillian Whyte. The previous night one punch from a 40-year old veteran abruptly ended the 1,000 days you’ve spent as the No 1 mandatory contender for the WBC heavyweight title, which at long last you were in line to challenge for after coming through this fight.
But you didn’t come through this fight, you lost, and now like a man falling off a mountain just before reaching the top, all of a sudden everything you’ve strived for, the years of pain and agony you’ve endured, appears to have been for nothing.
Making your defeat all the more agonising is that you had your opponent down twice in the previous round, and that with the 40-year-old Russian visibly tiring, only something approximating a Hail Mary punch could have possibly turned things around at this point in the fight.
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
