Meet the farmer swapping haybales for haymakers as he prepares for boxing debut
A farmer is preparing to swap hay bales for haymakers after becoming a professional boxer.
Fourth generation farmer Edward Hardy, 22, who fits his training in around cutting crops and feeding animals, dreams of becoming a world champion.
And he hopes to mow down his opponent when he makes his professional debut in September.
Super-bantamweight Edward, who works his family's Marr Grange Farm, near Doncaster, said: "I'm in a lucky position where I've got the farm as well as boxing.
Fourth generation farmer Edward Hardy, 22, who fits his training in around cutting crops and feeding animals, dreams of becoming a world champion.
And he hopes to mow down his opponent when he makes his professional debut in September.
Super-bantamweight Edward, who works his family's Marr Grange Farm, near Doncaster, said: "I'm in a lucky position where I've got the farm as well as boxing.
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00:00My name is Edward Hardy, I'm 22 years old and we're a fourth generation farmer on a
00:08mixed farm, arable and livestock, and also a professional boxer, making a professional
00:14debut on the 27th of September on a GBM show in Sheffield.
00:22I'm lucky because I can train, I'm lucky to get a bit of time off through the day to train
00:27as well as farming, and then we catch up with our jobs when we get back, and I can also
00:33get a training around the farm, doing different jobs such as flipping the tyres, squatting
00:38the bags when we're feeding up, and different jobs such as stone picking off the fields
00:45and things like that.
00:49They also do a bit of rocky training, you can chase the chickens.
00:56I'd like to keep boxing and keep farming as well, and hopefully they'll play side by side
01:01together, and with the boxing I just want to see how far I can get, try and win as many
01:07titles as I can, and just keep climbing up the ranks to the top, and then also still
01:13farming as I can, and helping out at home on the family farm.