Before making the film he spoke to Peter McCabe, chief executive of the brain injury charity Headway, who is deeply anti-boxing, as well as surgeons and those with brain injuries.“Sometimes we look at boxing and we forget there are human beings in there – they become characters in a narrative themselves,” he said. Awaking from the coma, the real fight begins. He needn’t be. It merely recognises its dangers.No one can accuse Considine of not doing his due diligence. As he approaches the end of his career he knows that he must make his money and get out of the game, to secure a home and future with his wife and baby daughter.
Suffering from memory loss and with his personality altered, Matty must begin to piece his life back together as his world disintegrates. The central story is set centuries in the future, where after horrific nuclear wars humanity united to create a peaceful global society. After a titanic fight with the brash and controversial Andre Bryte, Matty collapses on his living room floor, a delayed reaction to a devastating punch. There is a scene at the start of Paddy Considine’s compelling new film, Journeyman, about a boxer who suffers brain damage after a world title fight, that rattles the senses like a sharp one-two. The story concerns middleweight boxing champion Matty Burton.
In truth, he probably prized such camaraderies most of all.Along the way he also fought in front of 70,000 people at Soldier Field in Chicago, after which the former world heavyweight champion Gene Tunney offered to manage him (he turned Tunney down because he had given the Englishman Ted Broadribb his word he would sign with him). Journeyman does not glorify boxing or condemn it. His aim is to secure a home with his wife Emma, and a future for their baby daughter Mia. – was in trouble. Now, coming towards the end of his career, he knows that he must make his money and get out of the game. And he also got to face some of the best fighters of his day, including Randolph Turpin, who went on to beat Sugar Ray Robinson.But, long after he had retired, the sport he loved also killed him. The local newspaper with its front-page headline “Boxing hero dies in the ring”. “And with that separation you sometimes forget there are two men putting their lives at risk.”I thought of those words on Saturday night as the Australian heavyweight Lucas Browne crashed face-first on the canvas during the sixth round of his fight against Dillian Whyte. But at some point in the fourth or fifth round, when the chances of him landing that sort of shot became smaller than the risk of being seriously hurt, the fight should have been stopped.Sometimes I wonder whether social media is partly to blame. No blame is being attached to anyone and we feel very sorry for the lad who was training with him.” And everyone moving on, except those involved.It is on this difficult terrain that Journeyman pokes and probes. “ Words make you think a thought. Join JOURNEYMAN as he goes "blank" and tells a story of personal transformation. Only someone who cared about the sport would depict it so honestly. A song makes you feel a thought. And I have also seen the power of the salve and salvation that boxing clubs can provide in inner‑city communities at first hand. No one wants to be labelled a coward or a quitter. It led to titles – he was the first Irishman to become European amateur champion – and lasting friendships, including among those who had once tried to take his head off. After a titanic fight with the brash and controversial Andre Bryte, Matty collapses on his living room floor, a delayed reaction to a devastating punch. Journeyman certainly does that.Labour of love is an examination of ‘the fragility of the sport and life itself – and what happens when the crowds have gone away’Paddy Considine in Journeyman as Matty Burton, a boxer who suffers a brain injury in the ring and has to try to rediscover his identity.Paddy Considine in Journeyman as Matty Burton, a boxer who suffers a brain injury in the ring and has to try to rediscover his identity.here is a scene at the start of Paddy Considine’s compelling new film, Using his love for his family as a driving force in his fight to recovery, it portrays the struggles and frustrations in a thought-provoking way. Considine, who prepared for the role by training for 12 weeks at the Ingle Gym in Sheffield (my great-uncle Brendan also has a cameo as his father), admitted to me that he was nervous that his film might be seen as anti-boxing. Due to the establishment of a utopian society, humanity has been invited to join an alien organization known as the Symbiotry of Peaceful Beings. The story concerns middleweight boxing champion Matty Burton. But it has timed its moment exquisitely. And so they continue to trudge into the firing line.Thankfully on Sunday Browne tweeted that he was fine, but tellingly he also admitted: “My eye was giving me trouble from the second and you can’t protect from what you can’t see.”I still maintain that boxing redeems far more lives than it ruins.
He was bloodied and blinded, nose busted and physically gassed. Perhaps he did.
It had long been obvious that Browne – a strong but primitive fighter reminiscent of an early character in a Super Punch Out! Matty Burton is the middleweight boxing champion of the world.