I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

I still work out most days. When I do it, I go full blast five or six days a week, two to three hours a day. I enjoy it. It's therapeutic for me.

Boxers are very isolated - or isolated within their own camps.

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.

When I was like 12 or 13,Muhammad Ali gave me a pair of his trunks that were white satin with gold stripes. They were full of blood, and my mother threw them away. I think it's the first time I ever cursed at my mother.

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.