"I deal with the sweet science of the sport," he has been saying.
Boxing is sometimes called the sweet science, but I have always thought of it as two thugs pounding each other.
"I am into the sweet science of the sport," he said.
Jones has perfected the sweet science of personal stability.
It was Egan who first defined boxing as the sweet science.
He followed it with a master class in the sweet science against another foil.
Then again, if boxing is sometimes known as the sweet science, it's certainly not an exact one.
It is still the sweet science, not a barroom brawl, at least according to the textbooks.
What does it say about the so-called sweet science that he can wallow back into the ring?
And as a comeback story, it has the smell of the sweet science all over it.