Another World

 Another World Episode 42

Michael

Michael Mason Saunderson started boxing at 11 with a tube in his stomach, thanks to his cystic fibrosis. He abandoned it around 17, when he was drinking heavily, getting tattoos and eating poorly.  But now, at 21, he’s an amateur boxer in Belfast once again, living cleanly, and foraging careers in television and theater.

In today’s episode, Michael takes on an onslaught of questions.  Does he expect to have a career in boxing?  How is it to be from a Protestant background, fighting in a predominantly Catholic club?  When he walks down the street, does he size up every passing man for whether he can take him?  What’s his personality in the ring?  And, if he’s so intent on never returning to a hospital, why does he fight?