thunderous second round knockout in 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n“I didn’t even know they had the canvas here until I came into the gym,” said the Cardiff-born fighter.<\/p>\n
“I would have loved a chance to buy it, maybe put it in a gym that I eventually get and run, but they’ve got it and I’m training here, can’t complain.”<\/p>\n
Cordina says the other fighters in the gym are great motivation too.<\/p>\n
“For me coming in this gym, seeing this canvas and seeing the boys around me, it’s a bit of a lift to know they’re training alongside a world champion,” he added. <\/p>\n
“You’ve got a world title challenger Liam Williams also in the gym and Rhys Edwards who should be challenging for a British title very soon. <\/p>\n
“You had Ben Crocker who’s won an IBF European title too so we’ve got a good little stable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this year Cordina returned to south Wales to train with Gary Lockett, and there is no better…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-338588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}