Watch: UK’s only professional boxer (via BBC Sport)

BBC Sport has released an article and video featuring Reece Cattermole, the UK’s only professional boxer, who talks about the frustration he felt at school, and the ten month wait he faced for a boxing licence.

Extract:

Reece Cattermole was diagnosed with a genetic, degenerative hearing condition at the age of three and is expected to be completely deaf by the age of 40.

Despite that, the 21-year-old from Ipswich is the UK’s first registered deaf boxer to be granted a professional licence since the 1970s, and won his four-round debut contest last month.

“Before boxing I had little understanding of hearing, how it works, what it is,” he told BBC Sport.

“I never quite knew how to deal with situations before they happened. Boxing also helped me learn how different people communicate.”

Read the article and watch him in action here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/get-inspired/44307249