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00:00 Delighted to be talking to the British champion Aaron McCallum.

00:05 Aaron, how are you doing?

00:05 I'm all good, Tom. Pleasure as always, mate.

00:07 What's it been like since you won that belt?

00:11 It's a different world, mate, honestly.

00:13 I remember the night. It was like you'd won a million pounds.

00:19 It is, and it still is.

00:21 I've always said on our BKB, it means everything to me now.

00:27 And winning that belt was like, it was just winning all life.

00:31 Unbelievable, really.

00:33 You'd tried before with Scott McEwan, lost.

00:36 Then you won against Mark Tiffin.

00:39 You've been through the mill to get there.

00:42 Oh, definitely, yeah.

00:43 Presumably you're not going to give it up easy.

00:45 No, no. You come and set me up, you've got to really come and try and get it.

00:49 I'm not ready to give it up yet, and I don't think I'll ever be ready to give it up.

00:56 Talking to Wales' finest, Corey Healy.

01:00 Corey, welcome. Good to talk to you again.

01:02 Ahead of a title fight.

01:04 Yeah, nice to see you again, Tom. Pleasure as always.

01:07 You're looking forward to your fight with Aaron McKellen?

01:10 What a tough fight that's going to be.

01:12 Yeah, it's going to be a tough fight.

01:14 Obviously, it's dangerous. I'm coming up awake.

01:17 So, it's dangerous at any time.

01:20 To be honest with you, I'm not really bothered.

01:22 You can stretch up, stretch down.

01:24 Doesn't really make a difference.

01:25 Some fighters, when they lose weight, they struggle.

01:28 Are you happy fighting it?

01:29 I might be fighting it anywhere from 66 to 73 kilos.

01:34 Obviously, you're fighting Corey Healy, who's another tough guy,

01:40 who's won his last couple of fights.

01:44 I mean, he's in good form as well.

01:45 What are you expecting?

01:46 Well, first of all, I'm happy to fight as well in my eye.

01:53 I think we both have laughed about this, haven't we?

01:55 That we'll never find someone in my eye.

01:56 I think he's actually shorter than me, Tom.

01:58 So...

01:58 That'll be a first.

02:00 It is, yeah.

02:01 I'd make it the first and the last if it didn't.

02:03 So, I'm buzzing for it.

02:05 And not only that, Corey's a good boxer.

02:07 And he's not going to reach high.

02:11 I ain't going to reach high.

02:12 It's going to bring out the best of us, if I'm being honest.

02:17 It'll be nice to actually box someone that's my height

02:21 and actually do it in boxing style

02:24 and not just overreaching, trying to get them and stuff like that.

02:27 I mean, you've said it in your commentating.

02:30 It says Aaron never says that he's bothered about the height.

02:34 But obviously, of course, the height is a big difference, isn't it?

02:38 So, yeah.

02:39 Like I say, he's a decent boxer.

02:42 So, I'm looking forward to fighting him.

02:44 You've got hopes of being a champion yourself.

02:46 But you've got to take it away, the belt, away from Aaron McKellen.

02:50 Yep.

02:51 Tell us a little bit about what you expect from him.

02:54 You know, I know he's renowned for power.

02:58 You know, I'm not stupid to that.

03:01 I'm not naive either.

03:02 You know, I know he's a champ at the end of the day.

03:05 He's not going to be a pushover.

03:06 He's not going to be a walker.

03:07 Same as most of the boys I fought, you know.

03:09 But this mentality, this training camp,

03:13 this whole lead up to this fight is a lot different, you know.

03:19 I'm setting out to achieve what I pushed for, you know.

03:22 Sometimes when people are so determined to win a belt and they win it,

03:26 I'm not sure, I wouldn't use the word complacent,

03:30 but it's like I've done it.

03:32 And you can tail off a little bit.

03:36 What are you going to make sure that you don't, that doesn't happen to you?

03:39 My coach hasn't let me even think about that.

03:41 If I've not won anything yet, I've just warmed up.

03:46 And I actually feel like, I'll be truthful with you, Tom,

03:50 and I ain't saying this for the cameras,

03:51 I've never ever trained in my life like I'm training now.

03:56 And I love training, Tom. I do really love it.

03:58 I remember your first fight against Fishdog.

04:01 Yeah, completely different.

04:02 You were a different man.

04:03 No, I've not trained for that.

04:05 But like, even to these fights, previous fights,

04:09 I've not trained for them, if I'm being honest.

04:12 To where I am now, it's completely different.

04:16 It's like I've been stripped of everything I've ever done.

04:19 And started again.

04:19 And just started again.

04:20 Yeah, just everything is completely different.

04:24 I'm hitting limits in training where nobody wants to go to them places.

04:31 I feel like I'm hitting them places in training.

04:35 Fight night, I can't wait for it to come,

04:38 because it's not going to be an easy night.

04:40 But what I'm trying to say is,

04:42 it's going to be a breeze compared to what I've been training.

04:45 Yeah, that's exactly how it feels to me.

04:47 As the challenger though, you have to be more proactive.

04:51 I've got to work that little bit out.

04:52 Because the judges are looking for the champ.

04:54 The champ doesn't have to do it.

04:55 So they're going to be looking for you.

04:57 At the end of the day, it's my job to take a better deal from him.

05:00 And I expect nothing less.

05:03 I don't expect him to come out and stand there, to be honest.

05:07 No, I'm expecting him to come out.

05:08 I'm on the trade.

05:09 So I think there's no easy fight in BKB.

05:12 Yeah, nothing's going to be easy.

05:14 Especially if you want to get to places where you want to go.

05:17 You know, such as tightrope, British worlds.

05:19 No matter where you go, you've got to be in tough fights.

05:24 You know, because there's some serious contenders out there now.

05:26 And serious tough guys.

05:28 And serious tough boys, you know.

05:29 Corey Healy is a tough guy.

05:31 What will we have to see from you to win it?

05:35 Just more boxing.

05:37 Obviously, you know I've got the power.

05:39 I think he obviously knows I've got the power and stuff like that.

05:43 But I think I've had enough fights in here to know exactly what I need to do in there.

05:50 Comfortable wise.

05:51 And if he wants to scrap, he knows I can scrap.

05:56 I won't say it's the wisest things to do.

05:59 Everyone's seen me scrap.

06:00 They know full well I can scrap with anybody.

06:02 Yeah, just keep my boxing brain there.

06:07 What I've learned.

06:08 And just boxing.

06:10 I've just boxing how I should imagine he's going to box me.

06:14 And just start doing him on the boxing.

06:15 I've done it before.

06:16 I've done it with John Colley.

06:17 He was a good boxer.

06:18 Down on paper.

06:19 I've beat him on boxing skill.

06:21 I gave Scott McHugh a good run for his money.

06:25 Other fights I've just scrapped.

06:28 Do you know what I mean?

06:29 So yeah, I'm going to...

06:30 Obviously, I'm not going to tell you everything I'm doing.

06:32 But yeah, I'm coming in to boxing.

06:35 And put on a nice fight.

06:39 So we'll see what happens.

06:40 Convinced you'll be going home with the belt still?

06:41 100%.

06:42 100%.

06:42 What would it mean to be the British champion?

06:45 Everything.

06:46 Because I've achieved what I set out to early on in the stages.

06:50 And that progresses me to up where I wanted to be.

06:54 Where I see myself at the beginning of all this.

06:57 I wanted to see myself as a champion.

06:59 I wanted to see myself holding a belt.

07:01 And perhaps even get that world title shot at some point.

07:04 If that is to happen, what are you going to have to do

07:08 to make sure that you get the belt?

07:10 Apart from the obvious win.

07:11 But what are you going to have to do?

07:12 I'm going to be a dig deep fight.

07:15 I'm used to going there.

07:17 I've been in the trenches.

07:18 Like with Pat Nash.

07:19 The last round of Pat Nash.

07:21 I don't think either of us want to give up.

07:24 Just punch up and steal the round.

07:26 And I've been there.

07:29 I'm not afraid to go there.

07:30 If I've got to go there, I'll go there.

07:31 And to be honest with you, like I said,

07:34 there's nothing that's going to stop me from getting that belt.

07:38 You know?

07:38 Excellent.

07:40 Have a good night and good job.

07:41 May the best man win.

07:43 Yeah.

07:43 But good luck to you.

07:44 Lovely. Nice to see you again.

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