I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.

There is nothing like wealth for dulling desire.