Champion boxer Harry Garside rose to prominence last year at the Tokyo Olympics. But the 24-year-old, who paints his nails and occasionally wears a skirt, has since stepped outside the ring to strike blows against gender stereotypes. | ViscountBrooky
Muhammad Ali and Vasiliy Lomachenko, admired as much for their character as their prowess. Almost beyond his boyhood ken, he has the chance to be among them.And he says boxing, despite its dark reputation – “could you not have picked table tennis or lawn bowls?” asks Kate – is full of some of the most beautiful people he has ever met.
Mother and son viewed the comments together. “I am so used to getting punched in the face, but I am not so used to copping so much positive and negative feedback from people,” Garside says.Garside, carrying an enormous bottle of water, is clearly not up for a drink over lunch. Kate forgoes a glass of white wine. She is recovering from breast cancer, and her son, who lives in Bellevue Hill in Sydney is back home visiting.
He is frank as to why he started. “I had to prove that I was a man and then I fell in love with the sport. I was pretty insecure for a few years and that came out in ugly ways. The more I do boxing, the more I figure out about myself the more secure I get in my own skin. Turns out I was not the only one. Father Shaun, who couldn’t make lunch as he was off tiling roofs, had wondered the same thing and asked his son about it when he was 16. The answer was no. “There was no judgment or malice, he was just preparing himself.”
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