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Tony Bellew

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“And people know, look, I'm not white, I'm not black and I'm not white, but I'm just me. But yeah, I'd let people know what I was. Pretty much straight away because if I hear that undertone or I hear that slight comment or dig. Going to respond unless it's a woman. And a couple of times I've had to let that go, and it's been women who've made undertone comments only once. I think I took it up with a woman because I was working in the sports centre for Liverpool City Council and a woman. Yeah, said the M word, and I was furious and I just had to give it a piece of my mind and I called her every slot and sweat you going. And I actually lost my job for that.”
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“So I find myself meeting people and I'd be like, Yes, I'm mixed race, so yeah, my mum's black, my dad's white. And some of them used to look at me as just to say, why is he telling us that? And I think, because I just don't want to hear the comments that I'm used to hearing of this way, that word, I'd hear them all my life. And people would make smart ass jokes and degrade black people or whether it would be, I've heard every single word and phrase you can possibly imagine. And I would only hear them because they were undertone racism. It would be said because they thought I was white. And that was the most frustrating part. So then I felt myself”
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“I wasn't given advice. I just found myself. I used to build a bit of a protective wall around myself, so I would let people know I was half black within literally the first couple of minutes of meeting them. So that way it would shield them from saying anything. Because if someone says a racist comment in front of me, I'm going to smack you. Or I'm going to do something. I'm going to butt you smack you. I'm going to give you a peace of my mind. I'm going to do something.”
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“What it must have been like for my mother growing up because that must have been very difficult, especially for, you know, and I know it was difficult for my mother and father to be together when they first get together because my father's coming into a period of the time where the Toxt are happening. And for a white man with a black woman and black kids and stuff, he's had this fight regarding that as well. But for my mother, it must have been horrific at times. Must have really been hard. She's strong. She's a strong woman and she can get through anything”
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“Yeah, of course, so you're not blacking up for the brothers and you're not white enough for the white people. So, yeah, I've got that since I was a kid, but. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. It did growing up because you're trying to think who they'll relate to, what do they relate to and relate to just being a decent person trying to do the right thing. I've done enough bad things in my life to know that I'm a good person. Make sense, so yeah, I've told you. Race, color, creed, it doesn't really bother me. You're either good or you're bad Yeah, it's not hard. I've always wondered.”
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“I think I smacked someone to school. Whatever's waiting for him, I give them a good beating, driving back home after thing young crashed my mum's car. Really? Yeah. And then for the unknowns ever did that story, yeah, crashed the mum's car into a taxi and then set off running for a couple of weeks. So yeah, for a couple of weeks. Yeah, I was gone for a couple of weeks back in the day. So yeah, you could just go missing in them days. And the emblem's car was classed as being stolen. Lots of crazy things I've done and experienced in my life. But yeah, that's the first time I've actually spoke about that side. So you're the first well done. You've dragged something up”
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“Lots of times, lots of times. I mean, the amount of times I'd have to go up to the school. I remember being a kid, taking my mum's car, she was away. She was on holiday. I got a phone call saying your brother's been threatened to be beat up after school or some kid threatened him. So at this time I think I was 16, took my mum's car, which I shouldn't have done, went and got my little brother and”
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“A kid growing up, I think I seen one gay man, one gay black man. His name was Skippy. No one would mess with him because he was like six foot three and his name was Skippy and he would fuck around and no one swim and just leave him alone because anyone who did try and mess with him, he was going to smack them. But my little brother wasn't that way inclined at that age. He's not smacking no one. He just take a slap or whatever. So I couldn't allow that to happen. Though anyone would slap him, I would step to them. And it would always be me win every single time.”
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“A family, we understand and know we get him. I love him as my little brother, but then for the outside world it doesn't go down well in the mid-90s it wasn't cool to be gay and black like my brother's darker than me so he's the same shade as you are Liam and that just didn't go down well picked on in school regularly in the junior school it's not too bad it's okay because it's kind of just looked at as being yelled and you're out there but when you start getting towards senior school level it's like oh okay he's gay and then that comes with problems and headaches and when you're raised in wavering”
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“Always had a conscious thought that he was because my brother's gay, he's not. You hear my brother before you see him. You know, he's out there, he really is. So we knew it quite early on. But as I say, as time goes on and you see the environment that he's raised up in, he's constantly around women. And yeah, he just adapts. And we see where it's going.”
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“That's deep. I've never been asked to questions like this, but it's all good. Yes, it does add a life where I try my best. lamb from others' mistakes and not just me own. I would never ever in a million years have an affair. Ain't having just not going on. Not a chance. Things sit with me and I say I'll try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. But yeah, growing up in that period of the time and that part of my life was very, very difficult. And you just have to learn to adapt. So then at that stage, your home's broken. And my friends then become my family, my closest friends that the five or six of us that all go to school together, they become my best friends and they become my brothers from there on in. And you learn to cope with life and do things just because my dad done what he done. He didn't detract anything from as a father. He was a brilliant father. He's been me greatest supporter since the dad was born. I'm as shining light. He believes in me like no one else could ever believe in me like he adores me. I know he does. And I adore him. I would do anything for me, father, but yeah, them years when he's gone.”
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“I was heartbreaking, absolutely heartbreaking. As a kid growing up, it's not nice meat. Watching your mother cry soft to sleep at nights and other things that go on in life is heartbreaking. Very, very tough. And you only understand how tough it is when you look back as an older, as a grown-ass man, you realize how tough and hard it really is. So heartbreaking. Yeah.”
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“He couldn't keep his dick in his pants to the top and bottom of it Basically, fantastic father, but you know, was carrying on, broke my mum's heart, and was gone. A product of most men, to be honest, but that was the reason my dad was gone. So he was carrying on. He had an affair with some scutbag of a woman who knew he was married with four kids. He let his thing in between in his pants rule his head. And a thing that he regrets every single day for the rest of his life, which he constantly tells me and does. But these are the mistakes men make.”
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“At the age of 10, my old man leaves home. He's gone. And then at that age, my little brother at that age is about six or seven, my two elder brothers, one I'd moved out, and the other one was on the verge of finishing school. So the elder one who finishes school then goes on to further education. He goes to university. So we keep moving on over a few years. And then once I hit 13, 14, it's quite apparent my younger brother is gay. And then that's when I'd say the fighting takes shape and things take shape.”
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“I am a product of the environment and I say that and the way I get to that is because it's no coincidence I'm a fighter. I believe I was put on this earth to fight. It's something that I enjoyed, something that I like. It's something that I'm not afraid of. Like fighting doesn't, it never scared me. It never bothered me. Think that's a bit weird, to be honest, but it's just me. I can't change who I am. And the environment I was raised in definitely helped produce that, you know, from being.”
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“People will look at you and think you're a success story. They look at the money you've got, they look at the scenario and set up you've got, but ultimately, are you happy?”
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“Their mid 90s, it wasn't cool to be gay and black. That's when I'd say the fighting takes shape. Used to brutalize my body, cannibalize my own body. There's fight nights that I've had that I can't remember anything.”
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“Believe I was put on his head Me father who taught me how to punch, and at 12 13 years old, that's a powerful tool to show a kid.”
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