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Tony Bellew

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“I've lost weeks at a time with my mind because I've been dieting so hard my body's just gone into complete Overdrive, I've drove home from Sheffield multiple occasions and not remember the single thing of how I've got Omen drove. I've been on autopilot. And that's just, that's training camp, that's life. So she starts to understand how dangerous and real it was. As time went on. So once I've won the World Title, she's like, You need to stop now. It's time to just be a dad. And I'm like, no, it's not. I've got to financially secure us. So then I made the audacious thing to target a man with a pound sign on his head and the man who had that pound sign on his head was David Hay. The way I looked at David, I knew David from way back from Spartan many years ago and he paid me. If you've ever seen the program Red Dwarf,”
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“That's it now. You've done it. It's time to stop. And I'm like, yeah, I've achieved everything I set out to do. And yeah, it's gone well. I said, but girl was so financially far from security that I've got to keep going. At this stage, she now understands because she used to think Boxing was a game. She used to think like, as an amateur, she didn't even recognize it was, she was like, you've got headguards on. It's not even boxing. It's basically, it's a game of tick. And I was like, fuck's sake, girl, if you only knew. We put a head guard on you and give you a jab. You'll soon have a fucking difference opinion. But she soon learned. She soon learned how to brutalize my body, cannibalize my own body. There'd be times when I'd come home from training and not even remember where I've been concussion that I'd have this fight nights that I've had that I can't remember anything. I've turned up to Arena's had a 12-round fight, come home and not even known I've had a fight.”
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“Thank you. So 29th of May 2016, I've completed the game. I've completed the story. I'm someone in life who've seen through my lifelong dream. My dream in life was to fight to go to some park. You know, that was the best I was ever going to achieve. The WBC title at Guderson Park, I've lived, I've seen me dream through. But I wake up on Monday. Well, that's a lie. I didn't wake up. I didn't sleep. So it goes down the kitchen on Monday morning, bank holiday Monday and my missus comes down. And she says to me.”
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“and say all I'm achieving that I've done and had. It was all off just to maintain that dream of one day becoming a world champion, the frightening part is imagine getting to that point in life, becoming world champion and all that, and then thinking my wife then says to me and she's not my wife at the time, she's still meird. Well, she'll always be my bird. And saying to her, she comes down. I win the world title of Gooderson Park on a bank holiday Sunday, 29th of May 2016. Yeah, I might as well show you that as well. That's the Delta win.”
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“lucky after I paid the cup man all the expenses and training very lucky if you get out with that you definitely don't cleared it because don't forget she wants her cuts as well HMRC. So, you know. Yeah, so very, very tough. So then you have to do extracurricular activities to try and earn some more money and provide food on table for your kids. So it's very, very, I couldn't expect. I know what it's like to be skint. I know what it's like not to have a penny. I've felt financial pressure. It's a frightening and frightening thing, and I understand why people do the things they do. No one can tell me nothing about being skinned or whatever. People say to me, now you would know what it's like to be skinned. Yes, I would. And I know what it's like to be skinned with two kids as well. So it's petrifying. So you figure a way out.”
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“snuffed me hunting off, me middle knuckle here that snaps in half, and then I spend all of the six thousand pounds that I've just earned to give the kids the best Christmas they can possibly have. On January the 11th, I'm skinter. I haven't got a single penny in the bank. I've got a mortgage to pay. I've got kids to provide for But everyone thinks from the outside, I'm this burdened professional and I've got loads of money because I've got a new car and whatever have you at this stage. I'm still living in my terraced house in Oldswan in Liverpool. But from the outside looking inside he's on TV. If I'd said to people, I earn £6,000 a fight of X amount I lose to the promoter, X amount to lose to the manager, X amount to lose to the trainer, I'm breaking even. I'm lucky if I'm getting out with four grand, three and a half.”
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“Yeah. Really, that's boxing for you. That's professional fighting. Unless you turn professional with a gold medal, there ain't no money at the start. And you've got a bank. How good do you really believe you are? How much do you really believe in yourself? Because you've got to back yourself all the way. So, you know, after five professional fights in me left hand knuckle here snaps in half in the fifth fight in my career. So I'll get an operation on and off. The best surge in the world, his name's Mike Hayton. And I didn't even have enough money to pay for the operation because I fought in December.”
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“At this stage After I've won the world title, before the fight David Hay, I don't own my house outright yet. I've got property one property that I rent out my first house. After that, I've got the second property that I've got to mortgage on. That's all I have to me name at that stage in life.”
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“Crazy. Basically, being fighting as a professional all my life at that stage, as well as been fighting as a boxer all my life. And bear in mind, when I go into the ring games, David Hay, I'm British, Commonwealth, European, world champion. I've achieved everything I possibly can within boxing. I'm still not a millionaire. I'm topping bills. I've thought that Everton's football stadium goodness and park. I've defended my world title at the Ecoli. You know, I've sold out multiple venues at this point. I've fought on Skybox Office multiple times at this stage.”
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“something that has completely gone into today's environment. No one cares no more. There is no haye within a criminal environment. There is no hierarchy on the street no more because every kid is out for himself. They do not care. That boxing gym demands respect. And no matter who you are or what you've got, you give that respect to that boxing gym. So Jimmy was a massive, massive part of that. And yet we were very fortunate as all of us to have him. Without him, mate, it would have changed so many fighters' lives in that place and in that community as well. It's not an understatement when I say save lives. He literally did.”
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“Numerous lads who have been there who have been shot, stabbed, have shot and stabbed people and that boxing gym has kept them on the straight and narrow. Like there was so many wars that have gone on in and around that gym. But when you went in that gym, that was the safest place in the world because no one would come in that gym and do anything to anyone because that was the safety had when you went in a boxing gym. And that was because of the respect you had for someone like Jimmy. And that's what he demands. That's what saves areas. It's literally you're policing your own neighborhood.”
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“Is about skill and class, and it's a proper sport. Professional boxing is a brutal, horrible business. It's not a sport. It's literally a way of life. You don't live professional boxing the way it needs to be lived. You will get found out every single time. And it will leave you in a bad way. Amateur boxing was a beautiful sport. I was part of a team. I was in Rotunda ABC. I had great, amazing teammates. I had amazing coaches. Understand that these coaches in these amateur gyms, they aren't there for money because there's no money in it for them. They're there for the love of the sport and to help kids. That gym has saved more lives than anywhere I've ever been in my life. Every boxing gym does how much a gym. And people use this and use the phrase, oh, this thing saves life. It literally does. It saved mine. It saved numerous lads I know in that gym's lives. There's numerous lads there who have been to jail.”
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“Yeah, which is crazy, I think, I win an ABA title, but I won three of them. I don't know if he predicted three, but I win three ABA titles of Box My Country go all around the world. I have amazing success as an amateur, bear in mind that I've not got the style to be a good amateur boxer. My style was to render people unconscious. I've never got in a boxing ring and wanted to beat someone on points ever. Well, that's a lie. One time I did. I got in the ring against a guy called Danny Price, and I really liked Danny. I didn't want to hurt him. The only time I've ever got into a fight and didn't want to hurt someone. Amateur boxing.”
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“Miss him every single day, not many days go by where I don't think of him. I'm close with his family and lovers, lovely wife, Bernie and his kids, Michael and James and lovely family. They've now got kids and Jimmy's affected so many people's lives, massive, massive part of mine. I will never ever forget him and I will never let his name go. You know, whatever I am, I will always take his name with me.”
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“champions, fawns, present champions Paul, Smith and Mich and future champions who he regards as the future of the gym myself and Paul and I was a future one. Bear in mind I'd only been maddened at this stage for two years. Or do you predict there was going to be a future champion, so for them to predict that and see it unbelievable. He'll stick with me forever. I have his name tattooed on my arm. Yeah, so all my tattoos mean something. So yeah, it's a...”
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“I was telling people I'm going to be a world champion, and they must have been like, what's going on jumps down from the guy I've just rendered unconscious and he's still asleep. I've jumped down off his corner of the ropes. I have to scream my head off. I walk back to my corner and I says to Jimmy, Jimmy, how good was that? It was amazing, wasn't it? And he just looked at him and went fucking shite. I thought just knock someone out in six seconds, and his response was, fucking shite. Lo and behold, he turns away to the other coach and just goes and just does a face with a little thumb up. I didn't see that once again. You'd have to look back on the video and see him do it. He never gave me praise, but then from what he told other people, like Jimmy, when Jimmy died, he got carried by six of us.”
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“Yeah, at that point then, I'm going to make it as a fighter after that national final victory. And I remember running back the corner to Jimmy and jumping on the ropes and saying, I am the fucking best fighter you lot we'll ever see in here. I was in Nottingly Sports Centre in Leeds, telling everyone I am the king of the world, I am the best ever. Now, this is just so embarrassing when I look back. This is a guy who was in his 10th amateur fight.”
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“Just couldn't believe it, and we're just breaking down crying, taking another card again with no license and driving straight to the gym. The top Jimmy gave me. I was sitting at the gym just crying and crying, thinking, what are we going to do? And as selfish as I am, thinking what's going to happen to me career, because at that stage then, being with Jimmy, I then knew I was going to be a fighter forever. Once I had two or three boats, I won my first national championships and Jimmy was in my corner. I fight in the under 10 novice finals, a fight against the guy with a surname Mohammed. He wins a semi-final 10-0. I go in and knock him on conscience six seconds in the final to win my first ever national title and under 10 novice title clean them out in six seconds still a record isn't it still a record to this day”
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“Yep, Paul Smith phoned me, I was there. Half phone me and I was just sitting there and he was sobbing on the phone. I said, whoa, whoa, what's wrong? Where are you? And he was just crying on the phone. I couldn't understand what he was saying. And then I got the last word. He said, Jimmy's dead. I said, don't be stupid. I was with him two days ago. Because Jimmy had a quadruple bypass. Gets the country bypass, and he just comes back too soon. He starts training again, he had a bevy, and like pizza and food, Jimmy's just a proper man's man. And yet he came back too soon. So when Paul phones me and tells me that Jimmy's gone.”
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“in the business and lose Muggle Jimmy was hard but I could deal with it it was a progression he got cancer and he got slowly slowly died and went away so that was a bit hard to lose him but the first real tragic loss I had was Jimmy that was hard grief is the worst feeling in the world it's the worst thing ever”
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“He made me believe in him so much, and a part of it was because he pushed me to levels of work rate that I'd never seen before that I never thought I was capable of, how hard we worked in that gym under his chooser ludge was as hard as any day that I've had as a professional. It was really tough. It would demand only the best from you. And I don't know how he's seen the things he's seen, but he did. The guy was a genius. He was unbelievable. So yeah, losing him was the first real loss ever had in my life. At this stage, I think I definitely lost my uncle at that stage, which was a bit heartbreaking. He was my dad's previous partner.”
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“Or five boats, four boats. I go back to the tunnel with my tail between my legs. I go back to Jimmy Albertina. After him telling me it's going to be 12, 18 months. This guy now knows who I am. He's seeing me box. He's seen me fight. And he's identified me as a talent. I didn't know that. I'm only told that later on in life because he would never, ever gave me an ounce of credits. He never once praised me, not to my face anyway. It was only upon him dying that I found out that he thought I was going to be a champion. Which is crazy to think that he could see that because I couldn't see at that stage. But being with him and spending time with him.”
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“lose the first fight through nerves and anxiety and just being petrified. It's normal. I've only ever been nervous for two fights in my whole entire life. The very first ever amateur fight I had, and then Guderson Park. So I've never been nervous for any other fight. Fighting doesn't bother me. I enjoy, like I said before. So it gets to the point, I get disqualified, meet temper flares in one in the last bout I have a stock with JBC. Guy spit in my face. I button as hard as I can in the middle of the face. Referee throws me out. I then go back to Rotunda. This time I've now had...”
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“So I went in this gym and punched a bag, and he comes over, he says, Have you ever boxed before? I said, No, I've never boxed. He said, don't tell lies. He said, how many bouts have you had? I said, I've never had a bout in my life. He said, kids who have never had a bout don't hit a bag like you. How many bouts have you had? I said, I've had no bouts. I said, but when can I have a bout? To that smart ass comment from me, he replied, you don't tell me, boy, when you're going to box. I tell you. He said about 12 to 18 months. And I was like, okay, yeah, walked out of the gym and never came back. I went then went straight to a place cliff stock at JBC. That's a guy called Mark Kinney. Six weeks later I have my first amateur boat. And all hellbreaks, Lucy, and I just think then I'm the waverche's version of Mike Tyson. I'm smashing people. You have to understand when you first have amateurs, very, very, very, really, you'll see a stoppage. My first three amateur fights all end in knockout wins. And you just don't see that. Usually a lot of amateur.”
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“Definitely in the short space on time I was around him and with him. I just got him. And the very first time I met him, I thought, it's never going to work. So the very first time I met him, he basically just shrugged me off and thought I'm not going to, he obviously seen a town. So I walked into, before I actually had an amateur about, I walked into a son under ABC and I started punching a bag. This had been the second gym I tried out.”
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“And I just need to get across to them. So I do that now with the program than do with the weapons down, gloves up. A certain amount of it's in the book. But ultimately, it's just hard to get across to the kids in the areas that I'm from. It really is because there is no way out. And I understand there's no way out because I was there. I was where you once was, with no way out, with no hope, no job. Expelled from school, and you just think, What am I going to do?”
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“And that's all you could really see because if I'd have seen a footballer from where I'm from, if I'd have seen a professional world champion boxer or I'd have seen a really educated video man living where I was, then I might have thought, I can do that, but you don't just don't see it. So I go to schools to these sometimes now and I try and talk to these kids and explain to them. I don't feel comfortable going to places. So I got invited to Oxford and Cambridge and I didn't go. I said no. And I just said I don't feel What am I going to say to people who've got brains, the sizes of this? And they were like, they understand it's not about the what you've tapped into up here yourself to make work for you. I said, yeah, but I can't, I'm not comfortable going, so I'm not going. But I can walk into any school where I'm from and have a chat to them kids because I am them kids. I've been where they've been. I can relate to them.”
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“If I could tell you what that professor was doing now, as fifteen, you wouldn't believe me if I could tell you what the 16-year-old was doing and what was going on as the jail, you wouldn't believe me. It's only the football those of us that could say he was the goal we all aspire to be as kids because he was so driven. Neil was just, he'd worked so hard when every spare minute he got, he was kicking a ball against the wall. He was trained, he was working, he was playing for Liverpool, he was just unbelievably gifted. worked so hard with the talent that he had whereas others didn't and as I say for me growing up it was like everyone who had nice things was selling drugs”
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“He's always going to be a football. He was just unbelievably gifted. So between the four of us there. Grown up within two miles of each other. No one from them areas I'd ever seen before or heard of before me had ever come a professor, an amazing journalist. Professional footballer and then a professional fighter world champion. And we were four lads who all went to school together, the closest of friends. And that's just thought out about the eight of us. The others have good jobs and stuff like that, and they've cracked on with it just fine, and they'll figure out the way in life, but yeah, that wasn't available to us as kids because, as I say.”
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“That's how it starts, but you also have to understand that in them areas, like I've just touched on, no one was coming from my area and was going to be Like, it's only since I've grown up and I've realised, so three of us got expelled from school. There was me, Tinker and Walker. Three of us permanently expelled. Now them three people, me Tinker and Walker, Tinker is one of the lead professors in Leeds University, expelled the same as me. Walks is one of the best journalists in the whole of the country for sports. This boy knows everything about football, boxing. The only reason he knows everything about boxing is because the dope didn't like the fact that I knew more about boxing than him. So he starts to study unboxing, which is insane. And then there's me. And I say we're best friends we grew up. Then there was Neil, there was Danzie. He was a footballer. He was set out from the start. He's amazing.”
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“Not rough. Is it not rough? Netherlands actually nice. Really? That's a nice part of Liverpool. You would say Letherland's really nice.”
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“I did have it in me where I was thinking I'll do it the wrong way as well. And that's once again where the touch upon being a product of your environment because everybody else is doing it. Anybody else who had nice things with and from, everyone was selling drugs. There's no other way to get nice things. No one where I'm from. I didn't ever see a doctor where I'm from. I didn't see a solicitor where I'd ever. I mean, the first time I found out what a solicitor was, it was because a lot of crashed into our bus on our way to school. My mother took me to meet him. The only reason that's the only way I found out what a solicitor was.”
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“Just want nice things, you just want. So, the nice things that I looked at was like as a kid, I can't believe I wear it, so I got a gold chain about this chain. Now, the only reason I have this is because I wanted that as a child and I've never grown up. It's the one thing I want I thought right if I can get that I've cracked it. I don't wear a chain out on me on my top and show this and all that's not me now. But as a kid growing up, I thought that was going to be me. The chain out and the cross and the downs, you know, you're growing up in a similar environment. And that's what you want. But I get it because in my mind, I think I got the things I wanted. But I've worked hard and I've done it the right way.”
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“Because I not wanted nice things. At the age of 15, 16, I always know wanted nicer things. I just at that stage, especially being expelled from school, I had no idea I was going to get them.”
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“Yep, for fighting, for smashing someone's face in, but while he was stabbing me in the head of the compass. So yeah, but this is the life that it's looked at as normal. I know when you look back now, it's frightening to think that if someone stabbed my son to head the compass, wow, it's truly frightening, but it didn't deter me or bother me at all. Crazy. Like I walked up to and watched them hold the compass and I knew I only had fists, but it didn't. It didn't intimidate me, didn't scare me, and yeah.”
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“Street Yeah, definitely because there's no other way to earn. I've got no qualifications. I've been expelled from school.”
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“And he's sitting there, he's done nearly 16 years. He's getting out soon. And that's what he said to me. He said, Your dad is spot on. He couldn't be any more truthful and couldn't be phrased any better. If you're in jail, you failed. So no one should glorify jail. No one should put a badge of honour on it. There's nothing glorious about sitting in a prison cell. Nothing at all. But I'm not stupid enough to think that that couldn't have been me.”
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“People in there. If you're in here, you've failed. And it sat with me forever. It's always sat with me. So there's various things that I've done that I'm not proud of. There's various things that if I would have been caught for, I would have been in jail, but it didn't. And at the same time, I'm very grateful for the words that he said because they stuck at me forever. I actually have got. Friends do in life. I've seen friends being in jail for long periods of time. I've visited a friend most recently. And we speak to him, and I told him the phrase my dad said, and this friend of mine has done a long time in jail. And he said to me, your dad was spot on.”
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“Yeah, he done what he'd done, and then he goes off, and I go and visit him, and then that's when I think another pivotal moment in my life, going to visit my dad in the big house is very, very tough, but sticks with me once again. It's a part of my life where I think to myself, wow, I can never come here. He tells me the most important, one of the most important phrase he ever told me in life. I'm sitting with him and I'm on a visit in order to his partner who takes me out to the visit, takes me there, and he says to me, see, a lot of people glorify jail. You see lads in there and like I've done jail, I've done this, I've done that. My father was the only person I've seen say what he said to me and I've never seen it said since. I've got friends who are in jail, grown up with lads from jail and stuff like that. And he says to me, son, don't ever come here. And I said, I'm not going to. They said, because you see this place, it's the house of failure. Everyone in here has failed. There's no winners in here. There's no great...”
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“If someone stole £10,000 from me, I'm not leaving a voicemail like, but, you know, no one's taking me kids' money. And I know I get these thingos from him. So, you know, no one can steal from you and take your child's money because I don't look at my money as being my money anymore. I look at the kids. And I'm pretty sure that's how he looked at his.”
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“When I found out what he'd done, I agreed with everything he'd done. So at this age now, it's right. So someone stole his money. So at this stage, my dad owns a pub. I say, he's running a security firm. He's got a pub on the side. He's got his other job with deprivation. He's got so many things going on. And this pub, I think the guy stole £10,000 out of safe. The manager he was employing to manage. Took £10,000 out of safe and went running with his money. So my father picked him up, took him, kidnapped him, whatever they'd done and demand phoned his home and demanded his money back. and that was told a no, so it makes another phone call, leaves a voicemail unbelievable, leaves a voicemail of what will happen if he doesn't get a £10,000 and that voicemail sends him to prison. So”
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“I was fourteen, fifteen, fourteen, fourteen, fifteen, yes, somewhere there or thereabouts. I'd have to go back in the years, but around roughly that age.”
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“I didn't know that then mentally and subconsciously. I've took that on board, seen how much he's praised me, seeing how much he's given me for doing it. And I've thought that's the way. So I keep flitting and messing around with that thought. And then ultimately I end up in a boxing gym, basically trying to impress my dad. I'm not going to lie. That was the first reasons for going into a boxing gym. I'm an amateur boxing gym and doing it.”
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“Got to a good level at that good standard, and then knocked a couple of opponents out with punches in the face. I was only a kid at this age. That shouldn't happen. Dropped one and flattened the other one, got disqualified for both contests because it was supposed to be semi-contact. You're supposed to tap each other for a point and then point for you, you go away, let's fight again, point for you, and you get to like 11 points, and you've won, I think it was 11 points. And I'm not going to be able to punch it, it was like, oh, you can't do this. And at this stage, it was me father who taught me how to punch. He showed me the correct way of how to turn your fist over, how to exchange your body from the end of your foot to the end of your fist. And at 12, 13 years old, that's a powerful tool to show a kid. But I've seen how proud he was to meant to knock them kids out in the kickbox. And even though I've got disqualified and lost, I knocked these kids out with punches and he was extremely proud. And I was like, oh, this is the way forward. And even though...”
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“And then upon finding out my dad couldn't stick at it and do it, I thought it was okay, I'll have a go at this. And I was just insanely good at punching people. And that was from an early age and just straight away. He took me on pads. I kickboxed the first.”
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“So, yeah, I just wanted to impress him. So, the first step was working on the door with him. Well, no, the first step was going into the boxing gym. That was the first step. Once I found out he couldn't progress any further with his boxing, I thought, okay, I'll show you I can. I'll have a go. And it started off as just a bit of a macho thing. I'll show you this. I'll show you that. Because ultimately, I didn't really want to box. I wanted to play football. I doed Everton Football Club and I wanted to be a professional footballer, but that's just a pipe dream. But at the ages of 12 to 16, you think you can do it. And I was a big believer in my own beliefs. So I thought, if I work hard, I don't know if I can do. I've always synchronized working hard with getting to the end goal. I'll get there no matter how hard it is or how big the task looks. If I work hard enough, I'll get there. But that just wasn't the case with football unlucky for me. But with boxing, I always watched it with my dad from afar. It's biggest fan, but I studied and watched because I was.”
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“You can possibly imagine the trouble that will cause them what we would get from the outside in. And we created an environment and a place that was unbelievable. And I've watched my dad go through so many problems and fights and things like that, whether he's been threatened to be shot, his house blown up, ran over, shot, stabbed every possible thing you can imagine, jailed twice.”
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“He tried the box and didn't stick at it, didn't go right, and it didn't go right because not because he's not hard enough or tough enough, just because he's mentally, he can't stick with it. He can't take someone. He's got a wicked temper. You would never know that as children, but I've seen it literally because I've worked on nightclub doors with him. I've strapped up a bulletproof vest at the age of 19 with him and we've been working side by side working on nightclubs. So as a young kid, I just wanted to be like him. So when I realised what my dad was, he owned a nightclub security company. And he ran them doors brilliantly, you know, the nightlife in our city was fantastic. We had the best club in the city. People still talk about today. It was called Society. And the policy was three to one with women to men.”
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“Because not everyone has a father, then I'm very fortunate that I do. Yeah, he might not have been living at home from the age of 10, but he's still my father and he still loves me and adores me. I know he does. My dad would do anything for his kids. He would literally die for all of his children. And that was passed over to me. I think that's... Why I adore me kids so much. But I always wanted to impress him Is me dad? So yeah, he's my dad. Past me wants to impress him, and a part of me wants to do more than he's done, do better. I want to impress him, but I also want to go further than where he's gone. And yeah, I was lucky enough for Fortune's not to be able to do it, especially when my dad was a hard man. My dad can fight, you know, really, really fight.”
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“Was she just denied? She said it, but I was like, You know I'm such a quiet, not quiet, but I'm such, I treat people everyone with respect. Everyone and me, it doesn't matter whether you can be anything in life. I'm no better than anyone, whether it's a fucking bin man on the street, whether it's a fucking, I was a lifeguard, whether it's someone who's begging on the street. I am no better than them, but believe you me, they're no better than me. Shouldn't disrespect anyone. So, yeah, I gave it a peace of my mind. I lost my job, and that was the end of that. You learn to deal with moments like that. And as I say, in the environment I'm raised in, I've found a way of shielding myself, protecting myself, and then also my actions now speak louder in my words because of what I've done with my career.”
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