Bryant Jennings is the underdog. Bookmakers have him at 8-1. The triple world title holder Wladimir Klitschko is taller by at least three inches and 30lbs in weight. The world champion has won more fights than his opponent, Bryant Jennings has had fights.
No. I've not suddenly become an expert on boxing. No more than is Bryant Jennings an expert on Conductive Education. And yet ...
And yet, he's the underdog, he says, because "people only look at the size and the inexperience but not the possibility". How often do people - professionals - look at the child (or adult) with motor dysfunction (cerebral palsy, perhaps) and see only the disability and not "the possibility"?
The system - the Government, of whatever stripe - demands it. As we face up to another assessment of our daughter's care package (as a result of handing to local authorities sole responsibility, on the closure of the Independent Living Fund), we know that only by emphasising her disabilities will her full care needs be met. Ever the disability, not "the possibility".
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Update: Bryant Jennings lost the fight on points.