#139. Debt Collector Fighting Tyson Fury & Anthony Joshua - Matt Legg
The Dodge Woodall Show
Dodge Woodall
5 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Matt Legg went from prison scraps to Wembley Stadium bouts, fighting his way through life. He spent his early days getting into street fights and countless violent confrontations with the police, turning to crime as an occupation.
He got caught up in drugs and debt collection, but his life changed when he discovered his passion for boxing behind bars.He turned professional as a heavyweight boxer, and has fought the likes of Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury, James Toney and the infamous bare-knuckle hardman, Norman Buckland.
This is The Eventful Life of Mr Matt Legg.
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| 0:00.0 | My manager called up and said, um, anti-Jers team was off of the AJ fight. |
| 0:04.0 | He goes at Wembley Stadium, I went 100% I'll take it. |
| 0:07.0 | From Milton Keyes, please welcome Matt. |
| 0:10.0 | This is how we do big time boxing in Great Britain. |
| 0:15.0 | Spired everybody, James Tony, Matt Skelton, Danny Williams, Sam Sexton. |
| 0:19.0 | Have you? |
| 0:20.0 | Have you? Yeah, yeah. Pura? Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:21.6 | Have you? |
| 0:22.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:23.6 | Have you ever dealt with any sort of mental health issues? |
| 0:26.6 | I didn't realise at the time, but ever since I was a teenager, I've always had a very quiet side where I'd not answer the phone for days. |
| 0:32.6 | I never knew why. I wanted to be strong and be able to look after myself just to stop these people |
| 0:38.7 | attack it. I got into loads of fights at school. This was about the same time I went to prison as well. |
| 0:43.0 | The positive thing that came out of the prison was Norman Buckland was in there. So Norman then |
| 0:49.0 | said to me, and he great advice, and I was recommending this to anybody. He said, |
| 1:03.7 | Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast. I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens, the world's largest sport and music festival. On this podcast I speak to fascinating |
| 1:09.6 | people who have all lived eventful lives. |
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| 1:23.6 | Matt Legg is a former debt collector and heavyweight boxer has fought the likes of |
| 1:30.1 | Tyson Fury to Anthony Joshua at Wembley Stadium. He talks about his runnings with the police, |
| 1:35.5 | his time as a debt collector and how he's now preventing crime on our streets. This is the |
| 1:40.1 | eventful life of Mr Matt Legg. |
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