Elliot Worsell

1 day ago | boxingscene.com | Elliot Worsell

Mention the name Dave Allen in Great Britain and most people will think of the comedian by that name popular in the sixties, seventies, and eighties. They will think of TheDave Allen Show, which aired on the BBC from ’71 to ’86, or Dave Allen at Large, and they will remember Allen sitting on a stool, drink in one hand, cigarette in the other, satirising British politics and religion.

3 days ago | boxingscene.com | Elliot Worsell

When a trainer sees their boxer hurt during a fight, several things must go through their mind. They must consider, for instance, the extent of the damage and whether it has been caused by just one punch or rather an accumulation of blows. They must consider where they are in the fight – how early or how late – and how much time there is left in the round in which their boxer finds himself or herself in trouble.

5 days ago | boxingscene.com | Elliot Worsell

To build a sport, they next built a wall. They built it in Times Square of all places, where, on Friday, it helped conceal a ring and a few hundred exclusive members, while everybody outside was told, “If your name’s not down, you’re not coming in.” It was never supposed to be inclusive, only iconic, they said. Instead, it turned out to be neither. It was, that Friday afternoon, just one more demonstration of performance art in New York. It was a cordoned-off crime scene.

6 days ago | boxingscene.com | Elliot Worsell

When a boxer is known for outlasting opponents and snatching victory from the jaws of defeat, it is perhaps only natural that the opponents they have beaten will feel hard done by. It is also natural for them to feel as though they could do better next time and that next time they will avoid the same mistakes. Leigh Wood, the former WBA featherweight champion, has come to expect this sort of talk from the opponents he has beaten.

6 days ago | boxingscene.com | Elliot Worsell

It stands to reason that the best fighters in the world, those who lead so-called pound-for-pound lists, would be men of a certain vintage. After all, to build a legacy takes time, and seldom will a fighter’s physical prime kindly coincide with their gathering of experience to give us the perfect version of that particular fighter. Usually, just as youth is wasted on the young, in boxing experience is wasted on the old, for it is at that stage, when old, a boxer’s body will start to betray them.