The pair’s first world title fight ended in controversy and began with an electric and memorable punch
Sport is meant to provide us with competition, but more importantly it is meant to provide us with emotion. To make us feel things. And of all the things we can feel while watching sport, nothing surges through the nervous system quite like shock.
It is utterly thrilling to see the form book being ripped up in front of your eyes, and no more so than in boxing. The punch from nowhere that knocks over the champion is like nothing else. It makes the pulse race and the heart beat fast. And it lives with you, as I can testify to having been at the Manchester Arena in November 2013 as George Groves squared up to Carl Froch and delivered a display brimming with shock and awe.
Written by Sachin Nakrani
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