Posted: Sun May 08, 05 8:44 am Post subject: First Cut
Monday Radio 4 20:30 First Cut
The glove strikes and blood flows. Your boxer is cut and their fate is in your hands. You only have seconds to staunch the flow and save the fight.
This is a journey into the dark arts and bag of tricks of cut man Mick Williamson. There is no course to complete, no school to attend, no test to pass to become a cut man, an expert at applying pressure under pressure. Take a seat ringside with John McDonald, Britain's leading boxing MC, and learn the secrets of the cut men who hold their fighters' fates in their hands.