Amid all the big fights, big corporations and big new governments coming to boxing there is often some stuff that is lost that should not be in pro boxing.
That’s the underestimated people behind the fighters and in training camps and on fight nights crucially of course.
Many new to the sport don’t realize how important the role of a cut man is in professional boxing.
If you’re one of the many new 18 to 30 year olds watching boxing for the first time around the world in the last year or so you will be learning about the unified rules of professional boxing and how the sport differs from the amateur code.
Amateur boxing with headguards typically (but not always in anymore), shorter rounds, more of an emphasis on scoring points and less cuts and knockouts in general.
Professional boxing however cuts and bleeding occurs regularly and is part of the professional fight game, just because someone gets a cut in a fight you might have noticed lately in recent fights you’ve been watching does not mean the fight is over.
However sometimes it does.
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Holly Holm at the weekend due to a clash of heads and a headbutt a case in point and the fight had to be called off earlier.
However, sometimes the astute and often supremely genius cut men that exist in professional boxing have the ability maybe of one of the best surgeons in the world when it comes to the fight game.
The professional fight game — the hurt business. That’s professional boxing.
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When a nose gets bust or a bad gash opens above an eye they have sixty seconds in the corner to get the wound closed so a boxer may have a chance to fight on.
Whether to get to the end of the content to try to win it on points or to get the knockout and close the show ahead of time.
The difference between some of the very good cut men is they won’t try to just stop the bleeding, which can be challenging enough, but they’ll go it in a way sometimes that will preserve the face of the fighter for a plastic surgeon afterwards to put back together so as to not leave a bad scar.
Not all of them are that gifted mind you but some are and the key thing is to get that bleeding stopped in the heat of battle.
Even long standing boxing fans of the sport of many years maybe underestimate the role and importance of a good cut man sometimes.
They can be invaluable.
