Welcome to the toe to toe, put trust.

Let's go baby, let's go! Oh, Welcome everybody to Ringside Toe Toe Toe Toe, a boxing podcast brought to you exclusively by Sky Sports and this is a special

addition special because we are out on the road we're in Manchester and sat

outside the Mosside Fire Station Boxing Club in glorious,

glorious sunshine. If you hear a bit of noise, a bit of traffic by the way as you

probably did just then that's because this is a working fire station. It's a busy

one too and fire engines as was just the case go in

and out fairly regularly and we are in a company of the founder and General Gaff of Mosside, BC, Nigel Travis.

Nigel, great to see you as always.

And the, well the reason that we come up to Manchester today and we'll be talking to some people from Nottingham as

well at during the course of the podcast is that it's long been the case that

boxing has been a force for good a social force for good as well as a sport everybody has been involved in the sport.

At the moment it seems like we're at a stage at a time where it's particularly important because around the

country there has been arising in knife crime particularly in the inner cities is

it's happened where I live in East London and now not more than ever necessarily but it's an important

time to be getting the core value messages of boxing out there which is something

you've been doing for a really long time.

Yeah I think people on the outside of the sport can look at it as teaching kids how to fight and they seem to can't get the head

around that but the problem is it's not about teaching these kids how to

fight because these kids know how to fight is trying to teach these kids more than fighting more than anything.

This is teaching them live skills.

So really, really, when kids come into a gym to be the next Floyd Mayweather, Anthony and Joshua,

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