“I grew up in this area, I have been on the streets, I have lived the wrong life,” he added.<\/p>\n
“Pain has purpose. If you don’t have that pain, you are not going to get to your best self.”<\/p>\n
After turning professional at 28, Valentine won seven of his 10 fights and was crowned the Midlands WBC champion in 2012.<\/p>\n
But he felt choices he made at the time meant he never fulfilled his full potential as a boxer.<\/p>\n
He said: “Just before I started this [bootcamp], I wasn’t in a good place.<\/p>\n
“I said enough was enough and I was going to turn my life around.<\/p>\n
“I went for a jog around the Forest Recreation Ground, I started doing some pull ups at the park bit at the bottom.”<\/p>\n
Valentine said he started inviting people to come and train with him at the park and it “grew and grew”.<\/p>\n
“After about two years I got a building in Forest Fields and that got busy,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Kids were coming in with no confidence but a few months later they were confident.<\/p>\n
“I could see what it was doing for them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I grew up in this area, I have been on the streets, I have lived the wrong life,”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-571529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}