“I think I never liked boxing until I was 11 years old, really,” Mitchell said. “I’d done it for a year, I had two fights and then I got robbed in my second amateur fight. Then me and my dad went home one day and he said to me, ‘Give up and go back to football,’ because I couldn’t deal with the pressure. I’d walk in a gym and people go, ‘Oh, that’s Kevin Mitchell’s son,’ this and that. And when I was young, I just couldn’t deal with that pressure. So, he said to me, ‘Listen, just go back to football, enjoy yourself and if you want to go back to it one day, you do. If not, don’t worry.’”
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