Since stepping back into the ring four years ago, Wayne Hall has shown he is still a master of his craft.
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The Tamworth boxer is just back from the Australian Masters Games in Adelaide where he again won gold, although the manor of his victory has left Hall feeling a bit hollow about it.
After learning the day after he arrived down in Adelaide that there were no other fighters in his age and weight division, Hall was given a fight against an opponent that was his weight but 20 years his junior.
But that also turned out to be a non-event.
After looking up Hall's record he requested the fight not be scored, so essentially an exhibition.
"I still gave him a boxing lesson," the 69-year old said.
He said it was "extremely disappointing" after travelling two days all the way down there to learn he wasn't going to have a fight.
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Not to mention all the hard work before the fight.
"I trained all year," he said.
Adding further insult he had to diet in the days leading up to make the weight.
"My weight limit is 60kg," he said.
"I was 60.9 the day I arrived. I got down to 58kg."
Sadly it's not the first time that Hall, who after four decades out of the ring picked up the gloves again in 2015 - his boxing return incidentally coming in Adelaide at the masters games - has gone away to fight at a major title only to end up without a fight.
"It's happened twice before," he said.
It hasn't though diminished his love of a sport he started in when he was 10-years old, and competed in at an amateur and professional level until he was 23.
"I just love the training," he said.
It keeps him not only physically fit but also mentally fit.
