Doctor Jeff Slater was born in 1956 in Burnley, Lancashire, and attended two village schools before being sent to a very violent all-male secondary modern school several miles away for failing his eleven-plus.
At the age of fourteen, he joined a boxing gym to learn to protect himself from the many physical attacks he was subjected to, both at school and on the street. Leaving Burnley in 1974, aged just eighteen, he immigrated to Perth in Western Australia.
He returned to England in 1977 as a bouncer and streetfighter. He was awarded a doctorate aged thirty-nine.
It all started in a small industrial town in the north of England. Walking into a boxing gym was the start of an amazing metamorphosis for the 14-year-old. At age 20, he had developed into a 16-stone boxer, powerlifter and ferocious street fighter, with a knock-out punch in both hands. This is the s...