Scouser offered a refreshing insight on Jorge Linares’s victory over Anthony Crolla that did not fit Sky’s guts-and-glory template
You don’t have to agree with – or understand – everything Tony Bellew says to appreciate that he knows what he’s talking about. The Scouser is a movie script waiting for a sequel, a cruiserweight world champion with David Haye’s heavyweight scalp hanging from his belly belt, but he also has wit and sensibility that marks him out from the herd with a microphone in his hand.
Bellew has grown into an articulate and entertaining ringside analyst for Sky and hit his stride again in Manchester on Saturday night, telling it like it is all through the card. He is not a salesman for his TV bosses.
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