Ryan Garner

I can pull myself away from them kind of situations and just stay on the straight and narrow.

Yeah, like I said to you just a minute ago, there was a time, I remember I was working at some place called Reva, like I said, it was just stacking up boxes, parcels into lorries.

And I remember I was eating lunch, like I said, I wanted to quit boxing.

I thought, I can't bob for this now.

How many fights you had at that point, do you think?

I don't know, seven, eight, maybe.

So you're unbeaten, mostly stoppages.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, seven, eight, but like I said, maybe more, but that's when I started to fall off the wagon a bit.

Things started to go wrong, I started to miss weights.

just other things that were, yeah, just all self-inflicted.

And I thought, I can't keep doing this, you know what I mean?

I'm just going to make myself look like a fool.

If I keep going along this path that I'm doing, then I'm just going to make myself look like a fool, embarrass myself in front of everyone.

So if I stop now, then I'll save myself the embarrassment, if you know what I mean.

Yeah, but luckily I didn't.

Yeah, obviously it's the team that I've had, obviously Wayne, obviously Frank Hopkins was still here there, of course, so he was still here with us then.

Gave him some great years, didn't he?

But no, like I say, I didn't want to let them down.

But obviously it was myself as well.

I just knew I had it in me.