Eddie Hearn and Deputy Prime Minister make impassioned defence of boxing amid danger fears
went up against Peter McCabe, the CEO of Headway, an organisation that works with people who have suffered head injuries.
“It irritates me this notion that the only way for working class boys to get on is to take up boxing, as somebody who grew up on a council estate in one of the most deprived areas of the country. “This is where you’re naïve about the sport of boxing, it’s a skill, it’s about defence, it’s about outmanoeuvring your opponent. You’re not educated as a boxer to go in and render your opponent anything.
“I know from my own personal experience that when my father died when I was twelve, Karate and then later on boxing were very important.“Not just in terms of physical fitness but also the role models, the respect, the ethos, and a bit of focus in life that it gave me at a fragile time.
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