When Fabian Edwards steps out at the Accor Arena for the biggest fight of his career on Friday, he will do so without his mother in attendance. It is certainly not for a lack of love that Mrs Edwards won’t be present in Paris; her son is just concerned about her lack of composure.
“My mum’s a crazy woman, you know?” the Briton tells The Independent, in the corner of a cafe at one end of London Bridge. “She’s never come to watch me or Leon fight in person, because it affects her bad. When she’s watching from home, she’s honestly climbing up the walls. If she were in the venue, she’d be running around, losing her mind. I just know it would be in the back of my mind. I’d be looking around, thinking: ‘What’s mum doing?’”
