THE VICE PICTURE ISSUE

VICE FASHION

By Danielle Levitt -
Top: Bobby has on a T-shirt by ICR vs. Deth Killers of Bushwick and Adidas track pants and sneakers.

BOBBY WARD (top)
Age: 16
From: Ireland (now based in Brentwood)
Been boxing for: 7 years
Hero: Mohammad Ali
Music entering the ring: “Fast music.”

“When you’re winning, like, and when you’re going places, there’s no better feeling. Drinking pints and eating kebabs can’t even come into it. I love the sport and I want to do well at this sport. So I gotta train hard.

“I haven’t been knocked out but I’ve been shook up a couple of times. If you take a hard shot, it’s painful, to say the least. You get stung for a minute. You know where you are, like, but you kinda black out for a second.”

RYAN “THE LION” PICKARD (bottom)

Age: 17
Been boxing for: 10 years. 40 fights/10 KOs.
Hero: Sugar Ray Leonard
Music entering the ring: “Bad Boy for Life,” Puff Daddy.

“If I weren’t boxing I’d be getting stoned with my mates, wudn’t I? But I ain’t interested in none of that. I’ve got no intentions of going out and getting drugged up. Boxing teaches me to have manners. It teaches us to have respect for our health. No one else has to say don’t do this, don’t do that. I think to myself: ‘I don’t wanna smoke, I don’t wanna drink.’

“You don’t really feel pain when you’re in the ring. You shouldn’t be in there if you’re thinking about getting hurt. You should be in the zone. When you’re in the zone, you’re just completely focused. There’s no other thought in your mind.

“Before a fight, I listen to some hip hop and fink about my opponent—how I’m gonna win the fight and how I’m gonna go about it. Say I’m fighting someone that goes on their back foot. I’d have to get in and cut the ring off. I just go over it in my brain.”