Weight issue: young boxer out of condition? (5,3)
I believe the answer is:
puppy fat
'condition?' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'weight issue young boxer' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'young' could be 'puppy' (puppy is a kind of young) and 'puppy' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'fat' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'out of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for puppy fat that I've seen before include "young blubber" , "Youthful plumpness" , "Early chubbiness" , "Childhood plumpness" , "Childhood tubbiness, often lost by maturity" .)