Boxer whose life was saved by Lady Gaga now eyeing comeback fight to prove bullies wrong
dailystar.co.ukboxing isn't so much the money fame and success, for me, it’s to prove my bullies wrong"," the 31-year-old exclusively insists to Daily Star Sport. " It's to prove to the bullies, ‘ok you bullied me to the point of suicide, self-hatred', when I was ashamed of being a brown-skinned human being - but I am going to show you.
But yes, that's how hard they pulled me down. That was a firm belief in my life, which is why I attempted suicide.”Indeed, Batista, born and raised in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, fell into a severely dark patch of his time.
With terrible mental health looming over him while at university, he knew he had to unleash it in some capacity - and boxing seemed like that perfect avenue. “The uni campus was in the middle of like nowhere,” he says. “So it was quite isolated and it was like 90 something per cent white 97 per cent.
Something like that. Obviously, I didn't mind you having grown up inWest Yorkshire; born and raised in a multicultural situation.
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