I started playing chess when I was 6 year old, but after 2 years I quit and at 13 years old I started boxing. Then I heard about chessboxing in my last year of school, one of my classmates told me and I went back home, searched chessboxing online and applied via the form. When I got my Lithuanian citizenship I came to London to visit my best friend and together we went to a chessboxing session at the Islington gym. After the session Tim, the boxing coach and I went in outside and after a couple minutes talking one of them said: "we have a new world champion" and it happened 6 months later....
I am the only one in Chessboxing who became a world Champion in three different weight classes (Lightweight, Welterweight, Middleweight) and I did it simultaneously.
