“It’s a blessing, mate, isn’t it? It really is,” Brown said. “Because, give it a few years more, going through active addiction and doing the wrong things, and I wouldn’t be sitting here talking to you. It would have been too late, I reckon. It would have been too late. Because boxing is a short career that comes to an end at one point. Nobody goes on forever. But I believe I just got it at the right time. And I believe that me coming back into the game, I didn’t have a lot of miles on the clock because I hadn’t been sparring every day, I hadn’t been fighting, because that puts miles on the old clock. I came back fresh. And I came back, more importantly, fresh minded. So I’m fully grateful that I managed to get back and back doing what I love.”
