‘It really tests you mentally’

Kaliningrad. Scezezin. Minsk. And now Almaty.

It’s a fact of life for a representative amateur boxer that the biggest of days usually dawn in ports of call with strange names and which lie far beyond the normal frame of reference for people on Europe’s western seaboard.

Russia. Poland. Belarus. Jason Quigley has had his passport stamped in all of them and each time he has returned through departures with a gold medal added to his inventory. European U23, European Youth. European senior champion.