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In 2014 Colombian boxer Darleys Perez took the vacant WBA lightweight belt but his journey to the top has been more perilous than any bout in the ring. Perez told the Â鶹Éç's Azi Farni he started boxing because he wanted "to learn to defend" himself. But after starting to train he liked to sport more and more so took up boxing and gave up football permanently. While Darleys watched his peers sign up to join the ranks of the local paramilitaries in Colombia he started to see boxing as "something to better my life, no hobby." This clip is from Sportshour on Saturday 18 July 2015. (Photo: Darleys Perez in action Credit: GETTY)