THE FIGHTER
Scott, how do you go from professional fighter to race promoter?
I started out playing professional football on the Gold Coast and like every kid I suppose I did something in the off-season to get fitter. I got into kickboxing and really enjoyed it. I ended up throwing the football away and focusing on the fighting and had 67 fights for 60 wins with a total of 12 titles, including three world titles.
Looking back, the fight scene was a bit like supercross in Australia. When I first started the fights were big events and the promoters really looked after the fighters. Then for a while there were some dodgy promoters around and I’m the type of guy who can’t sit back and watch that, so we started promoting our own shows.
We’ve been promoting fights for almost 20 years and we were getting a little tired with it. At the same time I was riding a lot of moto at home [with] the likes of Gibbs and Harrison - who was the rider who got me involved with the sport. Hanging out with Harry, I could see how everything was working and again I didn’t want to sit back and watch it being done poorly. I’d rather have a crack at
