FOREVER IKE
PAIN is a sensation familiar to every fighter. It’s accepted, overcome, and dispensed with relish. Yet the agony of grief is something all of us struggle to manage. Bereavements can corrode and paralyse even the most ambitious and resilient. One young fighter who’s worked his way through this type of loss is Top Rank prospect, Bruce Carrington Jnr. The undefeated featherweight lost his brother, Michael Hayden, in 2014, the victim of a senseless shooting as he returned home from buying a video game.
“I knew that I didn’t want to be stuck in that mud, be stuck in that hole, for the rest of my life,” he tells . “There’s no way. I got to do something.
