Obese as a kid, weight problems never solved but disciplined, resistant and surgical in certain punches: this is how the most unlikely of boxers became world champion against Joshua
He is one of those who puts you in crisis. Talking about its rise, peak and disbelief sown along the way means giving up a priori some of the fundamental principles of boxing; he brought their exact opposite “on stage”, to the point of literally surprising the world. The history of boxing is full of cases that tell of physiques that were initially unsuitable – for sports at all, before fighting – which over time work in the gym has forged. Or, of events in which once they got off the square, the protagonists let themselves go to the point of accumulating even fifty kilograms of overweight: Tyson and Tyson Fury docet, in this sense.