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Nov 17, 2025 – 5.00am
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Nick Orchard is the founder of Uncut Coaching and the coaching program The Big Refresh. He lives in Belgrave, Victoria.
First memory of boxing?
When I was a kid, Mike Tyson was like a mythical creature – this huge dude who moved faster than the eye could catch. As a kid who’d been bullied and beaten up a few times, it felt like this was the answer; not so much the fighting, but just to have a bit of his aura. As a young teen trying my first boxing class at a local gym, I 100 per cent expected to swan in and crush it. Young Tyson, I was not. I was very humbled, very rapidly.
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