Buddy McGirt can relate to Derek Chisora’s supposed last hurrah. In deep conversation with Donald McRae the trainer and former fighter talks about his own gruelling past, the hardest decisions he’s made in the corner and the woman he owes it all to
BUDDY McGIRT covers his face with his hands and begins to cry in his hotel room on a sunlit Saturday afternoon in London. The great American trainer, and former two-time world titlist, is 57 years old but the memories remain raw. McGirt shakes his head when I apologise for a question about his mother which has moved him to tears. He wipes his eyes and waves his hand as a sign that, once he has composed himself, he wants to keep talking. We are only 30 minutes into a two-hour conversation and there is so much that McGirt wants to share about his life in and out of the ring.