Steve Bunce

The moment they're out of training camp, the moment they lose that structure, he always talks about it, that regimental lifestyle, is the moment that the mind starts wandering.

You know, you just, you start thinking about things, you question things.

And given what he went through,

But unfortunately, because of his injuries, he wasn't able to get in training camp for two or three months.

And now he's in there, he's in a good place.

Eddie, there's only a few days that happened where we can talk about this, but when he finishes the fight with Jake Paul, I was with you that night, quite late at night, outdoors when we did that press conference.

The AJ that night, were you planning the fight with Rick Overhoven?

Yes, that was done.

And did he have that same hunger then in the aftermath of the Jake Paul?

Yeah, he really enjoyed the Jake Paul fight.

Don't forget, he'd been out of the ring for 14 months, right?

Coming off a really tough defeat against Dubois.

The Jake Paul fight was just like, you know, it was obviously a straightforward job.

It was a lot of money.

It was a big platform.

It was fighting in America again.

The whole thing was just fun for him.

And it also gave him a chance just to have a fight, to have a kind of fight under the Usyk team.

And he finished that fight.

And I left him in Miami in a brilliant place.