easy touch

"Think it's going to be an easy touch? Come over. It's not a problem to me. Let's fight. We could have it in America, in England, in a phone box, anywhere."

He tries to beat my blade again, advancing quickly, but I slip my blade beneath his and score an easy touch.

"I think now's the time to have an easy touch. He doesn't. He wants to prepare. Maybe Ortiz, maybe Wilder in that southpaw gearing him up for Usyk. I expect if he does have an interim, knowing Anthony Joshua, it'll be a real fight."

"You couldn't show weakness," he says, "because then these tough guys would recognise you were an easy touch."

That’s the easy touch Newsom is trying to run against.