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Inside the wolfpack
- Updated: September 8, 2016
A trio of young, unbeaten London-based fighters are chasing the same goals. Isaac Robinson finds out how the group of close friends are driving each other upwards…
Football famously saw Manchester United’s famous ‘Class of ’92’ graduate to the first team and dominate the Premier League, so is British boxing in the process of producing a comparable tale starring Conor Benn, Ohara Davies and Craig Richards?
It’s an ambitious comparison to draw, no doubt, but the style in which the youngsters are climbing rankings and metaphorical ladders towards major titles suggests this group may one day hold the boxing world in their gloved hands.
What’s it like to be a member of this wolfpack? We asked the wolves themselves, and no two seem the same…
Conor Benn
“It’s all about the team you’ve got around you and who you surround yourself with. All of us have the same goal and ambition and we’re heading in one direction and that’s up.
“It’s just not in me to talk like Ohara. If I don’t like you, you will know about it. At the minute I’m just fighting but when someone wants to have it, I’ll have it back with them when it’s personal. Ohara loves it and each to their own.
“I sparred Ohara a week ago and we were supposed to do eight rounds but I got beaten up so bad that Tony Sims took it down to five. It’s learning and I’ll come back another week and give him a hiding. …
