E156: Tony Bellew: Nothing Made Me Happy Until I Found This

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Tony Bellew is a professional boxer and a former British, Commonwealth and World Champion. As well as this, he is also an actor, and the star of Creed with Sylvester Stallone, and the author of last year's bestselling book, Everybody Has A Plan Until They Get Punched in the Face.

In this raw, honest and emotional interview, Tony breaks down exactly why people dedicate their life to fighting, and how it’s often because they have no other choice. But also because it comes to fill a need inside of them, and Tony opens up on what this inner need can do to you if you leave it unchecked.

Many times, Tony has had to bring his life back from the brink - of poverty, bullying, defeats, and his own emotional instincts. His story is a fascinating example of how it’s often things we’re good at that cause us the most trouble, but when we face that honestly we can come through stronger the other side.

Topics:

What are the most pivotal moments of your childhood?
Racism & its impact on you
Your relationship with your father & his prison years
Street life & lack of role models
The death of your first trainer & his prediction of your success
Becoming a world champion
How much boxers actually make
Chimp Paradox
Dealing with grief & depression
How to deal with hard moments
Our last guest's question

Tony:

https://www.instagram.com/tonybellew/?hl=en

https://twitter.com/TonyBellew/

Tony’s book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everybody-Plan-Until-They-Punched/dp/1841884707

Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos

Sponsors:

Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven

Craftd - https://bit.ly/3JKOPFx

Transcript

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0:00.0	Every night, I cried myself to sleep.
0:03.0	Like nothing made me happy. Nothing.
0:07.0	Tony Bellew! What a fighter!
0:11.0	I believe I'll put on this air to fight.
0:14.0	It would be my father who taught me how to punch.
0:16.0	And at 12.30 years old, that's a powerful tool to show a kid.
0:20.0	Finding out that your brother was gay being a pivotal moment.
0:24.0	Hmm, why?
0:25.0	In the mid-90s, it wasn't cool to be gay and black.
0:28.0	That's when I'd say the fight and take shape.
0:31.0	I used to brutalize me, but he cannibalized me on body.
0:34.0	There's fight nights that I've had that I can't even admit anything.
0:37.0	That shield you put up to help you to survive.
0:40.0	I'm guessing it's not serving you.
0:42.0	No.
0:46.0	One of the things I will never forget is the raw emotion that came out of you after you won that fight.
0:52.0	You know, people will look at you and think you're the success story.
0:55.0	They'll look at the money you've got, they'll look at the scenario and set up you've got for.
0:59.0	Ultimately, are you happy?
1:01.0	Are you happy?
1:06.0	So without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett and this is the DarioVaseo.
1:10.0	I hope nobody's listening.
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