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My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.

My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.

It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.

I wasn't a fighting kid or a causing-trouble kid. I was just one of those cheeky, crazy kids running around.

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair.