‘I AM GIVING THIS EVERYTHING’

SOME get it over and done with before breakfast, others wait until last thing at night. Whatever their routine, every boxer must eventually face the sport’s most necessary evil. Roadwork.

These days fighters tend to pop in their earphones, slip on their trainers and pull up their hood and let their music carry them around routes that become horribly familiar. The thud of foot on concrete provides the soundtrack to Tommy Fury’s life. Having nothing to listen to except his quickening breath and nothing