Liam Paro

Definitely.

12 years old, up in Mackay.

To be honest, it's one of my good mates, Tyson Best, he was a professional as well.

He was in the rugby league off-season, rugby league's mad in North Queensland, and I'd seen him doing his raps in the street, and I was just curious, what are you doing, hand raps?

And I said, can I come along?

And honestly, from that day...

I've always, I was a competitive kid.

Go back before.

I was always competitive.

Always like, that was my thing.

I was always pushing limits.

I just always wanted to be better.

I just loved that, you know.

Just testing myself and I found, man, boxing's it.

This is the ultimate test, you know.

No, no, I started in Mackay with Mick Coles and Trent Turnbull up in Piney Valley Boxing Club in Mackay.

And there's not much up there, but we had a good team, good boxing team back then.

No, I trained for about six months before I had my first fight.

But the first day I went there, they threw me in sparring.

I got the absolute piss punched out of me.