“It’s very hard, really, it’s very hard,” he said. “Me and my coach [Ursu works under Brendan Jones and Marley Dann] go to London from Plymouth, a five-hour drive for sparring, sleep in the car, back home, training again, three times a week, sometimes we do it for many, many years. It’s lots of money, travelling, going to hotels. Sometimes we don’t have money for hotels. We’re happy with what we have, so we don’t need… We don’t expect many luxury things. We are boxers; we are fighters. We fight with life, we fight in the boxing ring, so it is what it is now.
