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"Maybe I am a slapper, but I must have the hardest slap in the world. I was never taught to punch like that, if you see footage of my early schoolboy fights you see me using more textbook punching technique. But I always had problems with my left wrist because I hit far too hard for my age, by the time I was 15 it got so bad that I was told I'd never box again. So we had to work around that."
He also explains his stamina..
"I've been training like a pro since I was 13 years old. That's probably why I've got so much stamina to call on, that's the carry over. You know, through adolescence I suppose. It's set in my system. That's what I put it down to. I was up at 6 in the morning every day, pounding those valleys - then I'd get back, have my bottle of milk and get ready for school. I was training for the world championship!"
And his toughness..
"I didn't have much when I was a kid. I grew up on a council estate and I was always the shy, sporty one who got picked on by other kids on the estate. It was only at school I was able to socialise. We moved out of the estate when I was 11, but by then I was at comprehensive school and getting picked on there. So I never escaped from bullies. I became abit of a loner at comp school, I hated it. I dreaded going in every day, I was often on the brink of snapping when I was picked on there but always somehow managed to bottle it all up and let it all out in the boxing ring."
He also explains his stamina..
"I've been training like a pro since I was 13 years old. That's probably why I've got so much stamina to call on, that's the carry over. You know, through adolescence I suppose. It's set in my system. That's what I put it down to. I was up at 6 in the morning every day, pounding those valleys - then I'd get back, have my bottle of milk and get ready for school. I was training for the world championship!"
And his toughness..
"I didn't have much when I was a kid. I grew up on a council estate and I was always the shy, sporty one who got picked on by other kids on the estate. It was only at school I was able to socialise. We moved out of the estate when I was 11, but by then I was at comprehensive school and getting picked on there. So I never escaped from bullies. I became abit of a loner at comp school, I hated it. I dreaded going in every day, I was often on the brink of snapping when I was picked on there but always somehow managed to bottle it all up and let it all out in the boxing ring."
to your mom..
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