Can tonight inspire the next generation?published at 18:05 GMT
Kal Sajad
BBC Sport at Vaillant Live, Derby
Hello from Derby.
Live professional boxing on BBC linear TV for the first time in 20 years. It can only be good for the sport.
Free-to-air boxing is how so many of us fell in love with
it: Prince Naseem Hamed, Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank Sr… all those nights on ITV.
If tonight inspires even a handful of kids to lace up gloves
and wander into a local gym, who knows, maybe there’s a future Anthony Joshua or Tyson Fury Fury in
the bunch.
And as Frazer Clarke told me this week, the sport can change lives. The real win might
be what boxing can do for their wellbeing.
