Two-time world champion Carl Frampton has warned that boxing could take "months or possibly years" to recover from the damage sustained by coronavirus.
The Belfast-born fighter believes there will be two major problems when the current lockdown is finally eased - the financial hit suffered by the paying public and a wider health concern about packing into venues.
Frampton does not fear so much for his own future at the elite level, but his fellow professionals fighting for income at the lower tier. "It might take a long time to recover.
I'm talking months and possibly years away from getting it back to what it once was," Frampton told BBC Radio Five Live. "In my position most of the money and the purse I received comes from TV, but there