‘I’ve been chased and shot at’: Denzel Bentley on trauma, street violence and brutal boxing politics
Stripped of his WBO world title and numbed by violent deaths of friends in Battersea, the middleweight is determined to press on in pursuit of fights and titles “I’ve been very reluctant to tell my story,” Denzel Bentley says as he sits upstairs at his gym in Essex and opens up about his testing life in and out of the…
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‘I’ve been chased and shot at’: Denzel Bentley on trauma, street violence and brutal boxing politics
Stripped of his WBO world title and numbed by violent deaths of friends in Battersea, the middleweight is determined to press on in pursuit of fights and titles “I’ve been very reluctant to tell my story,” Denzel Bentley says as he sits upstairs at his gym in Essex and opens up about his testing life in and out of the…


