[StiffJab]

“… The support has been unbelievable.

“A lot of guys are coming up to me and saying go and beat him – and some a lot more animated and using a lot more colourful language! And I’ve had a lot of ladies, many of who don’t like boxing much, saying they hope I shut him up.

“Sometime you get a nice young girl and they’ll say ‘I hope you knock that “f” and ‘c” out! I really don’t know how to take those things.

“But it’s certainly getting a lot of people interested.”