Category: Boxing
Knock Out Depression – What Boxing Can Teach Us About Mental Health
Posted onIs there any better metaphor for struggle than boxing? Competition stripped to its most basic form, yet demanding a level of skill that is easily missed by the untrained eye. […]
like the night that ali fought holmes
Posted ontrying to recapture dreams of the past memories that flicker like ghosts days that we once took for granted when we were kings and would never grow old feet that […]
Box In Mind – Using Boxing to Improve Mental Health
Posted onAnybody that visits this site will know how passionate I am about raising awareness of mental health, reducing stigma and encouraging people to be able to seek help when they […]
building champions
Posted onAnthony Joshua & the Reclamation of the Greatest Prize in Sport
Posted onTime was the heavyweight championship of the world was the greatest prize in sports and the heavyweight champion of the world bestrode the globe like a colossus; men like Jack […]
The Greatest Of All Time, For All Time – A Tribute to Muhammad Ali
Posted onThe Greatest is gone. The flame that roared furiously throughout the 1960s and 70s, that faded but continued to burn brightly over the following four decades, is extinguished. But Muhammad […]
You Can Fool Some of the People, Some of the Time… But You Can’t Fool Yourself
Posted onYes. I. Can. In less than 10 minutes, lying prone at the feet of David Haye, it was brutally, conclusively clear that no, Audley Harrison couldn’t. Fourteen years earlier one […]
Rocky Balboa Changed My Life
Posted onRocky Balboa changed my life. Really. 30 years ago, almost to the day, I sat down with my family and watched Rocky 2. I had previously tried to watch the […]