Meet the British boxer trying to end knife crime in London

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The sport of boxing has been a lifeline for Isaac Chamberlain, despite being punched multiple times in the face. Growing up on a housing estate in Brixton, south London, the professional boxer had to navigate life through poverty, gang violence and knife crime.

"A lot of my friends now are in jail and some of them have passed away. But when you're going through it, at that time, you don't really think of it as dangerous, just what you grew up in," Isaac explains.

When Isaac was 11, his 16-year-old cousin, Alex Mulumba, was stabbed to death by a rival gang. Fearing Isaac was going down the same path, his mother brought him to the local boxing gym, hoping to change his trajectory.

"The sweaty gym walls, the bags, the smelly gloves, it was just a surreal moment for me. I'm seeing people getting punched in the face, and no one's getting in trouble. I was thinking, 'What is this?' I literally just fell in love with it," Isaac tells Scenes.

For the first time in his childhood, he received praise and compliments from the coaches. "They would always say, 'Oh, you can be a champion, you can be a world champion'. I never heard those words of encouragement from teachers, from my parents, no one. So I kept coming back and that's what really motivated me."

With a newfound purpose, Isaac stayed out of trouble. After nine years of gruelling training, he had grown from a shy boy to a confident athlete. On January 31, 2015, aged 20, he made his professional debut, defeating the Tanzanian cruiserweight boxer Moses Matovu in a