I wanted to be a boxer, but I had so many other responsibilities, so I couldn’t just do that.” “I would take fights without training, I would take them on short notice. I wanted to fight, but at the time, I wasn’t a professional fighter, I was just getting paid to fight. I delivered pizza, I was doing construction, mostly demo jobs, I was painting, pretty much doing any kind of work I could find. “I was doing everything you can imagine,” Dawejko said. Instead, he was working hard to provide for his kids and working on his boxing when time permitted. While Dawejko was pursuing a professional career, he wasn’t completely focused on boxing.
And when those adults have children, the responsibilities greatly increase. Then he turned professional, and things changed.Īdults have different responsibilities than kids. During his amateur career, he won 56 of his 68 fights.
