This is not a strict preview of the boxing year, but Ohara Davies, Callum Smith and Natasha Jonas are all in world title fights before the end of January. It is not normal to have that many British boxers start the year in important fights in so many different locations. And they are three very different fights.
The month of February will include domestic bonanzas and the Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury heavyweight carnival and cash cow in Riyadh. Fury landed in Saudi Arabia and was given his flowers at the airport on Sunday; this ghost fight is happening, Fury looks lean, and his luxury camp is ready. Usyk is under the winter sun in Spain, spartan in preparation and silent right now. Put it in the diary: 17 February.
