YOUR first 10-round bout came in your second fight. Was it always your intention to move quickly?
When I turned professional, I was 25. I knew at that age I didn’t want to have a slow rise in taking warm-up fights and developing that way. I’m at a gym where I’ve got the two Moloney brothers, Bruno Tarimo, and I was testing myself in the gym with them day in day out and I was sparring bigger [fighters]. My coach and my manager obviously thought we can take these challenges very early on in my career. I thought it was a win-win situation. If we didn’t beat them, at least we knew where
