Three years ago Charlie Dugdale was fighting for his life as he battled a rare blood disorder.
After receiving a life-changing bone marrow transplant, he has turned his fighting spirit to the boxing ring.
Dugdale, 20, from Liskeard, Cornwall, has aplastic anaemia, external – a condition where the bone marrow and stem cells do not produce enough blood cells.
In the race to find a bone marrow donor, his family organised a mass swab in 2022 to find a suitable match.
But it was the charity Anthony Nolan which connected him with a 29-year-old man from Germany for the transplant, giving him a second chance at life.
Since the operation, he has pursued his passion of mixed martial arts (MMA).
He won his debut amateur fight at the Meltdown Fighting Championships in Bristol in September and recently met his hero Tyson Fury.