“I felt, the way I was training and the way I was performing in sparring, I just knew that all I needed to do was execute that fight night and I’d be victorious. But yeah, it was a bit of a roll of the dice. Mark’s a quality fighter, so I knew I was up against it. I was in his backyard. I was the away fighter and again, if I lost, if I took another loss, that would have been four losses off the bounce. There’s no chance in hell that I was coming back. There was a lot of pressure on my shoulders, but I knew deep down that what I could do at that weight and I went into that fight supremely confident. I wouldn’t have stayed around just to be a gatekeeper. I’ve got aspirations and I’ve got goals and my goal is to become a two-time British champion and push on. So if I lost that, which I knew I wasn’t going to, but if I did then I’d have stepped away one million per cent.”
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