“It was me who actually reached out to him after the [first] Cameron fight [last October],” revealed Lee, who also trains Joseph Parker, Hamzah Sheeraz, and Paddy Donovan in Dublin. “I just saw the talent he had and said to myself, this guy is too good to let this happen – not let it go to waste, but not be guided right. A fighter like Ben just needs guidance. With me and him, it’s more like Emanuel [Steward] with Wladimir [Klitschko]. It’s more about what you do outside the ring. It’s more about building a philosophy of approaching a fight. He’s a pleasure to be around and we have spent a lot of time together, away from the gym as well as in the gym. I’ll tell you the kind of person he is. He’s the kind of person who flew to New York to support Hamzah [Sheeraz, in his fight against Edgar Berlanga] and flew to Belfast to support Paddy Donovan [in his rematch with Lewis Crocker].”



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