Ian started training at the Fortitude Valley PCYC in 2001 for fitness, and ended up training and competing under Shane Knox for 6 years at Lightweight and Junior Welterweight.

He moved to London in March 2007 and trained and fought out of Miguel's Boxing Club in Brixton South London. He then moved to Hanwell Boxing Club in West London and finally to Dale Youth Boxing club in Notting Hill were he trained with Olympic Gold Medalist James De Gale (and got bashed by him a few times).

Ian moved back to Australia in October 2008 and began boxing out of Murwillumbah Boxing Club competing at Welterweight. He finally moved back to the Fortitude Valley Boxing Club where he started to assist training boxers and had another 5 or so bouts before coming to train and teach Advance Martial Arts.