Reece Bellotti Eyes European Title Shot in Garner Showdown

“Yes, that’s absolutely a true fact,” Bellotti explained. “You’ll see on videos when someone loses, their mum always texts them and the only person that texts them is your mum: ‘Are you okay?’ That’s true to what it is. It’s like people aren’t really that fussed. A couple of days down the line, you get a few come back and go, ‘Are you all right?’ ‘Just checking in’ and stuff. But that first loss, I went away with my wife and kids for two weeks, didn’t speak to nobody, because I had to get my head into the frame of mind: ‘Right, I’m no longer undefeated, I’m no longer what I thought I was.’ So I’ve got to change my mentality, change my whole self, because I surround myself with a lot of my mates, we all banter with each other, we’re always taking a piss and all that sort of stuff, so I knew when I got back, eventually, they’re going to break the ice with, ‘Ahhh, you got beat, you got beat.’ So I have to prepare myself for that, and I’m solid to that now, and anything around that sort of lifestyle, I’m good with.”