8:35pm – We’ve just a potential fight of the year contender between Cody Beeking and Joel Pavlides in the second bout of the night.

The hard-hitting middleweights went at it for six rounds, landing some truly outrageous shots before Pavlides was awarded the decision with scores of 59-55, 59-55 and 58-56.

Whatever you’re doing, whenever these two fight next, tune in!

8pm – What a way to kick off the card!

Johan Linde, the former senior economics advisor to Dominic Perrottet, dropped a wildly entertaining four-round decision to Brandon Grach.

The pair of heavyweights threw bombs for 12 minutes before Grach earned a majority decision win with scores of 38-38, 39-37 and 39-37.

The bout was Linde’s second since returning to the sport at the age of 40.

The 2012 London Olympian, who fought Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker in the amateurs, worked as an economics advisor on Perrottet’s staff during the Covid years.

After the Coalition lost the State election in March, he “had a bit of time on my hands” so returned to serious training and made a winning debut in June.

Debutant Grach was aggressive early on, but ended the first round with a cut over his left eye from a headclash.

Grach was able to stay on the front foot for most of the fight, before snatching the narrow win.

Earlier –

Johan Linde is switching balance sheets for boxing gloves, with the former economics advisor to Dominic Perrottet preparing for his second professional heavyweight boxing match.

A 2012 London Olympian, Linde spent three years advising former New South Wales Premier Perrottet before turning pro in June.

Linde – who fought boxing superstar Anthony Joshua in the amateurs in 2012 – will take on Brandon Grach on tonight’s No Limit on Fox card at Moore Park.

The 40-year-old says his time spent working for the Premier was good preparation for his switch back to boxing.

“It gets you ready for it,” he tells this masthead. “Boxing is the best sport in the world, it gets in your blood.

“I’ve just turned 40, and you can’t have regrets in life. I’ve still got a couple of years left, so let’s see what we can do.”

After qualifying for the 2012 Olympics, Linde fought future heavyweight world champion Joshua in a warm-up tournament in Lithuania.

The South Australian is blunt when asked for his memories of fighting the Brit.

“I remember his right hand,” he laughs. ”He stopped me in the second round, he‘s an animal.

“I was winning the first round with my jab, then, ‘Boom!’ right hand, thanks for coming.”

By 2014, after going as far as he felt he could in boxing, Linde focused instead on his career.

An economist by trade, he worked at New South Wales treasury before joining then-treasurer Perrottet’s staff in February 2020.

Linde played a vital role as Perrottet’s team navigated Covid and the economic turmoil the pandemic created.

“Probably chief problem solver,” Linde says when asked what his job entailed in those months. “With Covid, it’s ‘who’s going to step up and try and help businesses and keep things on track?’ and I think it’s only the government that can do it.

“That’s what we were focused on. Then it was the recovery out of Covid, to keep the economy going. We had the lowest unemployment on record.

“We did a pretty good job – although I would say that!”

Linde calculates that after the first three months of the pandemic, his team “made $29 billion worth of decisions for the economy,” as he worked upwards of 100 hours a week.

“There’s no playbook. There was nothing to go on, where society just shuts down,” he says. “It made a difference, but at the end of the day, you can’t replace private businesses and the economy flowing as normal.

“It was a very intense time.”

Linde kept fit and relieved stress with regular sessions at the Parliament House gym, and decided to turn pro when the Coalition lost the state election in March and “I had a bit of time on my hands.”

A big basketball fan who has played hoops for charity, Perrottet can also handle himself with a pair of boxing gloves on, Linde says.

“We trained a few times. He’s pretty handy, he’s got long reach,” he says. “He could throw a punch.

“We did a bit of boxing, weight training, a few different things. But for him, it was just time.

“He’s probably the busiest guy in the state, so when you’re premier, you don’t have much time.

“He enjoyed the boxing, but I don’t think he’s thinking about a career switch.”

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