Dylan Moran on leaving Frank Warren and securing a homecoming

In 2022 Moran announced he was leaving Frank Warren’s Queensbury Promotions having joined less than a year earlier. Why? It simply wasn’t working. It was making things worse

HOMECOMING BOUT: Dylan Moran punches MJ Hall during the Welterweight Contest at Utilita Arena Birmingham. Pic: Morgan Harlow/Getty Images

The soundtrack in Horstfeldweg is silence. Exacerbating the loneliest sport and the hours upon hours of solitary grind. On the road, at the gym, in the ring, always alone.

For all that physical toll the greatest bout of all is between the ears. Those demons do not relent. Outside noise can distract but it is not true defiance. The goal is to stand toe-to-toe and to reach that state it takes full focus. For three months of a training camp in a small place between Hamburg and Hanover, that has been Dylan Moran’s creed.