Girlfriends had had in the past, they'd see me watching the fight song telling me,

going that it should be doing this and it should be doing that.

They'd go, why are you training box?

And I go, what do I want to fucking train box as well?

He says you're useless at everything. You're useless at everything.

Everything you fuck up. That's what he said to me. And he said, but this, you're good at this, you're really good at it.

But he didn't do that.

He just listened to what I said and just flew right out.

Just flew right out and took him apart and that's the end of the thought,

nah, it's definitely going to be a world shopping.

How did it happen? How did I let out, and it's my fault? How did I allow myself to become a recluse?

Look I'm sat here because I like it. But, no, it was ridiculous. It was, I don't know what I can't think of...

I'm ashamed of it. Hello and welcome back to Boxing Life Stories.

Apologies for the week off you may have seen that I was in the US filming for

BT Sport doing life story type pieces with Tyson Fury and Deontae Wilder.

Both were brilliant and will be on BT in the next couple of weeks.

There's also a fantastic no filter boxing program that you can catch up with on

YouTube or on the BT Sport app. My guest this week is an old friend, Billy, the preacher

Graham. We go back a long way, not even sure how far, but suffice to say we enjoy one another's

company and always have. Billy is one of the country's greatest trainers and boxing storytellers and we stayed in touch through his highs and lows if you enjoy the podcast please do two things leave a review and share it or retweet it or tweet the link.

It's insane when you guys all help out and this is something I'm trying to build so

a little help from you guys goes a long way. For now though here Billy goes back to the early days and

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