“I do my strength and conditioning with a really good trainer in Derby, and alongside this MMA fighter, Omari Deirdre, we worked together,” Abid recalled. “I said to him, ‘Look, if you ever need help with your boxing, give me a shout’. So, we did a bit of pad work here and there, and posted it online. Sandy saw it, and because obviously she’s from Derby as well, messaged me saying, ‘I need to do a little bit of pad work to kind of get me back into things’. I’m like, ‘Yeah, sure, come down’. And literally the next day she was like, ‘Look, I like the way you work. I want you to coach me’. I was taken aback by that a bit, because she’s world champion, and actually thinks I’m good enough to coach her.”
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