20 hours ago · Culture · hide · 0 comments

Why is a guy who normally writes about old churches, WWII defences and ancient sites suddenly writing about heavy weight boxing? Well I like boxing, and as its one of the top 10 most popular sports in the world and I never see blogs on it, and mostly I'm writing things I would like to personally read - so here we are. Everyone else can keep writing 'AI is killing kittens blogs' or 'blogging is aces isn’t it!?' until such a time as the upvotes all disappear. So, Saturday night is fight night and I've already watched an unhealthy amount of YT videos on this. Moses Itauma vs. Filip Hrgovic the young British (Slovakia and Nigerian roots) fighter vs the older huge Croatian with a famously tough chin. Anyone who's watched Moses' earlier fights will understand the hype around this guy. He is almost supernaturally quick and skilled. There is usually a blur, then his opponent is lying down wondering what the hell just hit him. Whilst his opposition to date maybe hasn’t quite been first class,…

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