It took YouTube boxer Deji three successive losses to finally get it right to land a victory before admitting he was a "d***head" during the initial bouts of his career.
The social media star is going to face boxing legend Floyd Mayweather in Dubai next month after knocking out Yusef 'Fousey' Erakat at The O2 arena in August. But as recently as March, he was still struggling to get his mentality right for boxing, and had just lost his third consecutive fight against Alex Wassabi.
He made his debut in 2018 against a fresh-faced Jake Paul, who at the time was solely an influencer with just a few weeks of boxing training. The American won a one-sided fight in the fifth round, before Deji took three years out of the ring ahead of a return against male model Vinnie Hacker.
