EVENTFUL LIFE: Sanders reflects on working with some of Britain’s finest fighters
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AMID the then-irresistible David Price’s final second-round assault on the poker-faced Matt Skelton in 2012, it was the experienced figure of Kevin Sanders who dismissed the protests from his own corner to rescue his ageing fighter.
Without Sanders’ intervention the vulnerable-butproud Skelton, then 45, would ultimately have been left with little choice but to fight on against a onceruthless heavyweight, and one unquestionably in possession of remarkably heavy hands.