George Groves: Down but not out, how I became a world champion at the fourth attempt

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Sports, Self-improvement, Mindset, Growth Mindset, Health & Fitness, Non-negotiables, Education, Life Lessons, High Performance

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🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

George Groves is a former professional boxer, he competed for 10 years and held a WBA Super-Middleweight title. In March 2018, he was ranked as the Worlds Best Active Super-Middleweight Boxer. George shares his desire to lead to the front, going at things alone, and the negative impact that can have. He won the world title on his fourth attempt, he offers advice on never giving up and why he would always choose to go back to his most challenging defeats.

He spoke to us about the struggles in his career, the great moments, the hard moments and why he had to do things differently than other people.

Former world champion and now host of the George Groves boxing club podcast: https://bit.ly/44cgiub

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0:00.0	Hi there, you're listening to High Performance, the award-winning podcast that unlocks the
0:06.2	minds of some of the most fascinating people on the planet.
0:09.8	I'm J. Cumpfrey and alongside Professor Damien Hughes, we learn from the stories, successes
0:14.6	and struggles of our guests, allowing us all to explore, to be challenged and to grow.
0:21.6	After hundreds of conversations, we've discovered that every guest has managed to unlock their
0:26.1	potential within.
0:28.4	This podcast seeks to find out how they did it.
0:32.7	Here's what's coming up.
0:34.5	My story essentially is winning a World title at the Forfe attempt, which I didn't think
0:39.4	that was going to be my story when I sat out at seven years of age dreaming of becoming
0:42.7	a World Champion, but now I can own it, be proud of it, that it took unwavering self-belief
0:49.2	and a lot of resilience.
0:52.2	Big right hand comes swimming over in the third round, I hear the crack.
0:56.9	I know this sound because I broke my jaw 10 years prior as an amateur boxing in Poland,
1:01.8	so I was like, oh, this is my physio comes over and he just puts his hand on my shoulder
1:08.1	and he says, Eddie's collapsing the change room.
1:10.7	So I know instantly what that means, like, he's in a bad way.
1:14.8	And yeah, my world kind of changed instantly there and then.
1:27.9	So it's a very warm welcome to George Groves on the high performance podcast.
1:34.7	George is a former professional boxer competed for 10 years.
1:38.8	He held a WBA Super Middleweight title.
1:41.7	He had a brilliant career in March 2018.
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