Conscience cleanser
@MattCBoxingNews
Editor
WHEN you’re the editor of Boxing News, the biggest enemy is not the delicate egos of promoters, disgruntled fighters, or stress-inducing deadlines, it’s your own reflection. For those that value having a clean conscience – the kind that doesn’t hound you every time you look in the mirror – the boxing industry can be a challenging place to inhabit.
Championing boxing, particularly on a daily basis, is a gruelling task. Because, as former BN editor Claude Abrams recently pointed out, for every child who is ‘saved’ by the sport there is a middle-aged fighter leaving substantially more damaged than when they came in. Which makes it difficult when attempting to balance the good with the bad. On the one hand,
