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How has it been preparing for a fight in lockdown? How different has this training camp been from what you’d normally do?
It hasn’t been that different if I’m being honest. I suppose, as is happening everywhere, people are a bit more relaxed now than they were at the very start. We’re still wiping our hands and constantly washing hands, temperature checks for people coming into the gym. The place getting cleaned down with antiseptic wipes and sprays. The big difference for me was not getting home every weekend. I used to fly home every Friday, but I haven’t been able to do that and I’ve been on the boat every second weekend. An overnight boat from Belfast to Birkenhead. It’s not ideal but that was my safest option to not pick up the virus. I don’t want to pull out of a fight. So that’s the issue. I’ve been training so hard.
Have you had any issues with sparring partners and getting people in?
We’ve done a lot of in house sparring. I’ve done a lot of skills sparring. Loads of rounds of skills sparring with Jack Catterall and Aqib
