Few sports have suffered more during the past 18 months due to the lack of income from paying punters, with entire livelihoods lost as a result. Quite simply boxing needs spectators, partly to camouflage its brutality and partly for its very existence. Every thud to the chest, every crack to the head, and while as a journalist or general observer you know those echoes are always there amid the heat of battle it was unappealing, to say they least, to hear them so raw and unfiltered in near desolate venues.
