Season 2: #20 Barry Jones

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 141 minutes

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Summary

Welshman Barry Jones won the WBO super-featherweight crown but had the title taken from him when a change was discovered in a brain scan. He was on the verge of big money fights, unification bouts and they all slipped through his fingers. An out of the ring battle ensued and he boxed twice more, including a loss to Brazilian great Acelino Freitas, before he walked away for good, with 18 wins a loss and a draw. Boxing had not made him rich. A number of jobs came and went before, years later, a call came to go on a TV show and he never looked back, becoming instantly popular to a new generation of fight fans who watched him through the night on Boxnation with Steve Bunce and who listened to his commentary alongside John Rawling for BT Sport. He also works freelance for Sky and MTK as one of the country's busiest pundits. But here, in his own words, he discusses the highs and lows of his incredible boxing life story.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to
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0:20.0	My father said he might be moved up.
0:23.6	So the number one challenger was a very old
0:27.2	a Zoom and Elson.
0:28.4	So this is it, no, I'm literally like, I'm like,
0:30.8	oh, I got a box of Zoom and Elson. He's going to kill me.
0:34.0	But I'm going to box a Zoom and Elson. And what if he's like, you know, the Zoomer was about
0:38.4	78 at the time? What if he has the worst day of his life and I have the very best day of my life and I just
0:44.0	nickerpitched his decision of him and then everyone forget that he only had one arm and his eyes
0:49.4	has fallen out and then he was like you know he had arthritis and I'd be the zoomin for the world's hile.
0:56.0	I got knocked down six times.
0:59.0	It's weird, isn't it?
1:00.0	But I got up six times.
1:02.0	I'd never have to prove that I was that I had bottle or I don't have to prove.
1:06.4	I always been a boxer pretty boxer but that fight I got battered like but it defined me as a person like I thought because even though I got battered
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