“The business is very tough and it does turn me away,” he said of a life in boxing.
“I have days now where I’ll be like, I know that I’m approaching retirement, I’m definitely in the back end of my career, but there’s times where I’m like, I love boxing and I want to be around it and I’m looking at ways I can be still involved when I’ve retired. I’ve got a trainer’s and second’s licence, I’ve got a manager’s licence and then there’s also days where I think when I do hang up the gloves as a fighter, I’m done with this game. It’s horrible. I get on with [ex world title challenger and coach] Gary Lockett very well from when I trained down there and he says, ‘Great sport, shit business.’ And that’s exactly how it is. But the fire’s definitely going out in terms of, a few years ago, if I turned on the telly on a weekend and there were some boxing on, I would sit and watch it, regardless of who it is, what level it was. I would just watch boxing, I was boxing mad, reading about it, watching it on my phone when I ain’t got nothing to do.
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