For a man who sits on the brink of boxing immortality, Paul Butler cuts a remarkably relaxed and confident figure.
We chat after he has just finished another gruelling training session, which included six rounds of sparring at Joe Gallagher’s Bolton gym. The task facing Butler on Tuesday night in Tokyo is huge.
In fact, it does not get much tougher in boxing. Standing in front of Butler, and a place in the boxing history books, is Naoya Inoue.
