Issac Hardman

He's just real authentic and genuine.

And, like, I feel like one of my superpowers is I have a good fucking bullshit radar or, like, you're a shit-cunt radar.

I just did not get, or like being around promoters and real estate agents, that icky, like you're lying to me, you're pissing on me, telling me it's right and no.

Whereas Dan just didn't feel like that and he was genuine, yeah.

And he had this idea like, man, I want you to be the poster boy for, I think it's awesome, like you being a world-ranked boxer, transition, you can't get a fight, you're sick of the bullshit, come over to the IBC.

I've had the experience in the little gloves, so it's not foreign to me.

and it would be good for, like, this concept to get off the ground.

I said, fucking sweet, I'll be your Chuck Liddell of the IBC.

Yeah, let's go.

So we sort of just got in sync really quick and I was, you know, I'd call him, you know, three or four times a week, just touch base, how's it going?

He's almost just a friend of mine now.

And then I remember at the time,

Like I'd stepped away from fighting and my wife, now wife, was like, hang on, what are you going to do?

And I did all that shit.

And then I went down and we were going through some ups and downs, you know, with our whatever.

And we went down to the Gold Coast for a little staycation away and Dara Foley was down there who was a boxer and I got on the – because I'm half Irish, 47% Irish, I thought I was like –

My dad was adopted into an Aboriginal family so I thought I was a black fella but maybe not from Eastside, maybe from Eastside but my mum's side's Irish and I did the spit in the DNA, half Irish.

I said, hey, Darragh, have a look at this, I'm half Irish.

He said, all right, let's go split some Gs.

So I got buckled with Darragh Foley and I remember it really just hit me and I said, mate, are you worried about like living long