Rendall Munroe: Boxing binman is ready to clean up

October 24, 2010

Traditionally inscrutable they may be, but the faces of the Japanese crowd in Tokyo’s Sumo Hall should be a sight to behold today when Rendall Munroe walks into the ring to a rousing refrain of “My Old Man’s A Dustman”, flanked by an army of cornermen and supporters decked out in luminous green-and-yellow hi-vis jackets. Boxing’s binman has taken time out from his early-morning day job emptying the wheelies in his home town of Leicester and vows the only thing he will be collecting will be the World Boxing Council super-bantamweight title.