About Lovemore Lawyers

Lovemore Ndou was born in Musina, a small town on the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe, in the last years of apartheid. He started school four years late. He started boxing at sixteen.

As a teenager he was locked up for three months without charge, accused of nothing more than speaking to a white girl in a supermarket. Police set a dog on him. He was sentenced to six cuts of the whip. He never spoke to a lawyer and was never given the chance to defend himself. He carries the scars on his face, his arm and his back.

That is where the law began for him, long before any university would have him.

He came to Australia in 1996, turned professional, and over nineteen years fought sixty-four times, winning forty-nine, thirty-one of them by knockout. He held the IBF light welterweight title, the IBO welterweight title, and a WBF world title. He shared a ring with Miguel Cotto, Canelo Álvarez, Paul Malignaggi and Kell Brook. He was Floyd Mayweather's chief sparring partner. In all of it, across all of them, he was never once stopped.

He studied the whole time. Law books went into the kit bag alongside the hand wraps. He would train for hours, go back to the hotel room, and read.