🥊 It’s a Wrap (Well… Sort of)

Exactly one week from today, I’ll be stepping into the ring for the Ultra White Collar Boxing event at The Troxy on 14/06/2025.

After seven intense weeks of training, sweat, sparring, sore muscles, and a few bruises, the final bell on prep has sounded. From now until fight day, it’s all about active recovery and avoiding any last-minute injuries. That means light exercise only (yes, I’m trying to enjoy it).

As a novice boxer and someone well past their “sporting prime,” this journey has been nothing short of transformational. I signed up to test myself physically and mentally but I’m walking away with so much more.

 

Here are my biggest takeaways from the ring:

• You don’t know your limits until you train with people stronger, faster, or smarter than you. Growth happens in discomfort.

• Bravery and courage are universal. They don’t care about age, race, gender, or background and they don’t always look like Olympic athletes.

• Energy. Effort. Enthusiasm. Every worthy goal demands all three. But when motivation fades, purpose will carry you through.

• Everyone’s fighting a battle you can’t see. In the ring or out in the world, choose kindness.

• Respect the craft. Every discipline has its own rhythm, rituals, and requirements. You can’t fake the fundamentals.

Why am I doing this?

To raise awareness, and vital funds for two amazing UK charities doing real, impactful work:

💙 100 Black Men of London

A charity empowering young people through mentoring, education, and wellness programmes. Since 2001, they’ve positively impacted over 10,000 lives.

Donate here 👉

https://www.justgiving.com/page/cornel-grant-9?newPage=true

🖤 Bringing Hope – Birmingham

Supporting those most marginalised, Bringing Hope offers pastoral care, therapy, mentoring, and rehabilitation to individuals often labelled ‘hard-to-reach’. They help break the cycles of exclusion and crime, and rebuild lives.

Donate here 👉

https://www.justgiving.com/page/cornel-grant-10?newPage=true

If this resonates with you, whether as a boxing fan, a supporter of social causes, or someone just looking for an afternoon of high-energy action, I’d love to have you in the crowd on 14/06/2025.

If you’d like to join us on fight day, tickets are still available here:

https://www.ultratickets.co.uk/events/ultra-white-collar-boxing-london-14-06-2025/.

Thanks to everyone who’s supported me so far. This journey reminded me that comfort zones may feel safe but nothing truly meaningful happens inside them.

Let’s go get it.

UWCB #CharityBoxing #FitnessJourney #FightForChange #100BlackMenOfLondon #BringingHope #BoxingForACause #PurposeOverComfort

Bringing Hope Website

100 Black Men of London Website