The Islington Boxing Club offers training sessions on Saturday mornings, with pay-as-you-go sessions coming in at £18. To win, it’s either checkmate or a knockout.

Speaking about his short stint in the amateurs: “I started at Islington Boxing Club and season one was 2022-23, where I had 15 fights and 14 wins. In season two I won everything.

Boxing is intellectual as it is — the best boxers are strategists, not sluggers — but this turns things up a notch, with rounds of chess played between the fighting. The Islington Boxing Club offers ...