Adversity, heart and courage are characteristics often associated with boxing. Drawing the power to lift yourself off the canvas from a thunderous right hand, or finding the reserves to grit your teeth and battle through the final round.
For Jonathan Kumuteo, those scenarios have, in many ways, already played out even before stepping into a professional ring for the first time.
But instead of gritting his teeth to get through the final round, it was digging deep to find the energy to escape after being left bed bound by a rare skin disease for eight months.
Or instead of rising from the canvas, it was stepping onto a plane alone as a seven-year-old in search of a better life after his family had escaped war-torn Congo when he was just a