‘YOU DON’T KNOW S**T ABOUT BOXING!’

I’VE GOT a black belt in Kenpo Karate and I did kickboxing and Muay Thai throughout my teens. In terms of boxing, I’d always been into it, but when I reached my teens, that’s when I became a proper boxing fan. At the time Kostya Tszyu was fighting and he was my hero. I even dated a guy with a Kostya Tszyu rat tail because I thought it was really cool! As for boxing training, well, that didn’t happen for a number of years.

I have a Bachelor’s [degree] in mathematics and Master’s in teaching mathematics. I graduated in the top 10 per cent in my class and got a Dean’s Merit in my Master’s degree at Western Sydney Uni.

But I’m not really the expert in languages that many people have been making me out to be. I only actually speak three languages, but every