PHOTO: Mark Pitts’ family history and his unusual path into the world of professional boxing caught the eye of the ABC’s Conversations
Western plains resident Mark Pitts isn’t the type you’d expect to see the in the boxing ring.
Although he now lives in Tooraweenah (a village in Gilgandra Shire) and works around western NSW, his origins were far more citified and sedate.
“I grew up in Pittwater in Sydney’s North Shore, my parents listened to classical music,” Mark said.
“You didn’t go into the hardest, toughest, roughest business in the world.
“Most of my friends would be terrified even walking into a boxing gym.”…