IT’S been more than 10 years since your last fight, the rematch with Carl Froch in May 2013.
Ten years is a long time, and people come up to me sometimes and they say, “Do you still fight?” Somebody asked me, “When is your next fight?” “Listen, my last fight was 10 years ago.” “Ten years ago – it cannot be true.” The 10 years just run by fast and it’s crazy that it’s already 10 years since I fought in The O2 against [Carl] Froch. I can’t believe it myself, but still the retirement – I’m happy. My wife [Lea] was pregnant at the time with my first child [Romeo] and he’s driving go-karts now. I’m training some fighters; I’m training myself, not so much boxing but weightlifting and running and all kinds of stuff that I want to do, and I’m in some companies now – plumber companies, building construction companies and security companies.
It’s more businesses and I’m happy for that. But I’m training people – that’s my main thing – people who want to change their life totally, to a healthy lifestyle; people come with bad conditions, heart conditions. They are afraid they have high blood pressure – all of that – and I will take care of them, so they will change their life totally around. All kinds of training, but also boxing. I tell them how to eat – everything.
I don’t think it was planned [to retire when I did], but I had some hard fights in my career. I was overtraining for
