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CONTRARY to rumours going around, pro boxer and mixed martial artist Clay Collard has not picked up a baseball bat or basketball to fill in the time before his next fight.
That’s not to say he hasn’t thought about it.
“I am very athletic, so if I was a little bigger, I might have tried to play football, but I’m kinda small for that.”
The 27-year-old Collard laughs, content to be the Bo Jackson or Deion Sanders of combat sports at the moment, and he’s got every right to be enjoying this time, as he’s gone from being a full-time mixed martial arts fighter to a young man who is currently being talked about in boxing circles as the 2020 Fighter of the Year thus far.
And they’re not kidding.
“I guess I’m still grasping it a little bit, but it’s awesome,” he said of his
