So prior to deciding to do this challenge, I was seriously unfit and larger on account of having done little exercise, having recovered from a knee injury and subsequent operation. What better way to recover fitness to play football again than to dance around a ring getting punched in the face?

As I was beginning training it was revealed that a work colleague of mine had recently been diagnosed with cancer and was due an operation to remove it. From then on I decided that Cancer Research UK would benefit from my inevitable beat down.

So I ask any friends, family, customers, or anyone I know to sponsor me in my fight, and raise some money for a great cause! I will post updates of how training is going, and of course the fight itself!

The fight itself is on the 4th November at the Open Norwich. There will be other fighters on the night, so it promises to be an evening full of pugilistic mayhem!