Issac Hardman

But, yeah, he couldn't even say fucking congratulations or better luck next time the next morning, just scrubbed me straight off the bat.

Yeah, right.

Which is just shit.

I was meant to be his guy, but whatever.

Yeah.

And then they were trying to turn me around.

I wanted to get straight back into it, straight back into it so I could get a win again.

Yeah, right.

And they said, we got your fight.

And then they would get pushed back.

Oh, we don't.

Oh, fuck this.

And then I was sort of...

struggling with if i wanted to keep doing it because i'm from 2017 me first fight through to 2024 i was just one fight after the other that was your career right let's go i never never had a holiday well i did little staycations but it was always after a fight i was always what's next what's next and then um couldn't get a fight kept getting pushed back so i'm just going to step away and have a rest and i had a rest um i left the gym end of 2000 and

And, yeah, I had an early life crisis because for 10 years I was just training people, doing PT, hanging out with my best mate Blair who was my coach.

And then he just was like, yeah, mate, I think it's a good idea for you to have a rest and just let me go out into the wild.

I was like, hang on, I don't have a plan.

What do you mean?

I sort of wanted him to be like, no, mate, stay here.

But he just said, yeah, go flap your wings.