Across Australia, corruption is taking place in boxing matches, delivering unfair and bias results. Tarnishing the reputation of the brutal sport.
Preston Potts sits down with Jayden Bruce, an amateur boxer who's stepped into the ring over 40 times. Jayden was born into boxing, where he would sit in a cot in the corner of the Castle Hill boxing gym, watching his father train boxers. Nowadays, Jayden is the one in the ring, getting his first fight in Cairns at age 16 and continuing the Bruce boxing legacy.
Throughout Jayden's 40 plus fighting career his admitted that there have been times where his fought his best, with the crowd thinking so too. Jayden insists, when it comes down to a decision anything can happen. Whether it's a home ground advantage, fatiguing judges, paying less attention, or people using money under the table to play a part in the final decision.
Jayden knows, "boxings a business, its simple as that. There’s always going to be snakes, it's all about money. Its people stealing money, its people looking for money, people using money, that’s all it is."
Jayden knows change needs to take place from the top, whether that's substituting the judges after each fight to ensure a fairer result or having stronger laws in place to make sure both boxers have a fair chance of claiming a win no matter where they are fighting.
If change takes place in the boxing world, it will give a fair opportunity to aspiring young amateur fighters, to leave a positive footprint for Australian boxing.
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