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Get To Know 'Bang Bang'

From the age of 14, I started to impersonate a fighter.  I would tell teachers at school I was preparing for fights at the weekend.  I walked like a fighter, talked like a fighter.  However, I couldn’t even lace up a pair of boxing gloves, let alone use them! I’d never gone near a pair of proper boxing gloves in my life, but I always told people I was going to be a world champion.  It was something I wanted to do, I just never had the opportunity.  I certainly got my reputation in the school playground, but my mum wouldn’t let me start boxing.  It wasn’t until my parents split up, my dad let me start.
I had big dreams…