#15 Anthony Crolla

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2018

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Manchester idol Anthony Crolla was just weeks away from his first world title fight when he saw his neighbours being burgled. Crolla went to help and wound up with a fractured skull and a fractured ankle and his world title dreams were shattered. The incident made the news everywhere. But one of boxing's good guys would not be denied. His superb career saw him capture the WBA lightweight title and he's been in numerous high profile fights, against the likes of Derry Mathews, Kieran Farrell, Gavin Rees, Jorge Linares, Ricky Burns and many more. Now he wants to fight the best boxer in the world, Vasyl Lomachenko. This is the brilliant Anthony Crolla and his incredible story.

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0:00.0	Sure, this is Peloton. This is a 15 minute low impact ride. But so is this.
0:07.2	We're here together for a 10 minute empathy meditation.
0:10.5	And even this. We get hit in with a 20 minute hip-hop shadow boxes session.
0:16.7	Ah!
0:17.7	What more could you ask for?
0:18.7	Well, with thousands of classes on our bike treading app, there's more to Peloton that you might have thought. This is Peloton.
0:25.5	Internet Connection and Peloton all acts as membership required. C1 Peloton.
0:29.2	Go. UK. Probably should have pulled that one into it.
0:33.0	But that now was a massive blessing in disguise.
0:38.0	I thought that one, I knew it wasn't a punch, I knew, I knew my head, I thought, he just put a brick or a slab over my head.
0:45.0	I went down on my knee and I went, I went nuts out on my knee, but I went down on my knee,
0:50.0	but my ankle just, I went to stand up and I couldn't put any weight on my uncle.
0:54.3	I remember I was I was a heart broke you know I was I was a heartbroken I was a heartbroken
1:00.3	and I remember you crying yeah I did I cried I like like baby to my uncle and I just got off I don't know ever I'd wait so it's gone
1:08.6	to I didn't want to cry in front of him and then yeah brought my heart it did. I can't, do you know, I can't be too mad, I can't be too disappointed,
1:19.0	but it just went then from being a boxer who got it over the head of a concrete slab to the
1:25.9	boxer who has wrapped up the world title and I just would be freaking fucking I can't take this.
1:29.9	It can be it can be a cruel sport. It can take I don't want boxing to take more from me than I've took from boxing
1:40.5	And at the minute I've took more from boxing than it's took from me. Hello and
1:58.0	welcome to Boxing Life stories.
2:00.0	Anthony Kroller is one of the nicest guys in boxing.
2:03.0	The former WBA lightweight champion is on the verge of possibly challenging Ukrainian superstar Vassal Lomochenko
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