Middleweight Callum Makin has excelled for the GB boxing team, but his Olympic future rests on a decision. Makin has won medals for Britain at both the World and European championships at 75kgs. But, with Olympic qualification looming next year, he has to choose his weight category.
With 75kgs no longer an Olympic weight Makin has to move up or move down by five kilos. Although he became a national champion twice over at light-middleweight, Makin expects to bulk up for his Olympic qualification campaign. "It's either 70 or 80kgs for me, which is a massive jump either side," Makin told Sky Sports.
"I'm looking at doing 80 kilos and I'm going to progress on that. I'm going to go up a weight and build into a new weight. "It's something that I'm confident of doing.
With the right team around me, I'll be able to progress in that weight. "It's a big ask to keep performing day after day, while getting your weight really low. I'd rather be boxing 100 per cent and giving everything." Makin is still only 22 years old and a proven international medal winner.
His bronze medal at the recent European Championships in Bulgaria backs up the bronze he won at the World Championships in his Liverpool hometown. "I'm glad to come home back with another medal," he said. "With it being in Liverpool, the World Championships, there was a lot of pressure on me to do well, thankfully I did.
"Out in Bulgaria it was a little bit different. More relaxed and just focusing on the fight more than anything. Just mainly [thought] go out there and enjoy it, and I did.
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