Season 2: #43 Glenn Catley

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Former WBC world super-middleweight king Glenn Catley had a remarkable career that saw him recover from early setbacks and controversies to reign as a champion. He had an incredible run of fights in Canada, Germany and South Africa while at the top of the sport, having already won the British title. But, as they often do, hard times followed. Despite that, Catley has maintained a positive mindset thanks to the use of hypnotherapy, something he used for his major fights, and he's rightly proud and happy while reflecting on his career. Here, he talks about the hugely controversial loss of his title in South Africa, his big wins over Kirkland Laing, Neville Brown, Eric Lucas and Marcus Beyer, working as a security guard, as a haulage driver and the parrot in Jersey that set him up with his wife while he was in training camp with Steve Collins! This is funny, sad and uplifting.

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0:00.0	I was not the best as an amateur or opera. I wasn't the most naturally
0:04.4	talented but I put it in and you know you can't take it out and I'm living proof
0:10.1	that with guts with dedication with desire with, with determination with confidence, literally anything
0:14.5	on planet Earth I truly believe is achievable.
0:17.0	When I got some news for you, Chris, I'm retiring.
0:20.3	It's a big fight, he said, Chris Chris listen. I'm the British champion.
0:24.0	I had the defense for nine months. I ain't got a pot of piss in the game's an absolute joke. I've had enough of it.
0:29.0	Come and collect the belt on retiring. He said it's Ritchie Woodall. He was stopped and I can
0:35.9	remember like an absolute idiot in front of that 7,000 seat or stadium
0:40.4	partisan crowd as it was. Remember just like an idiot losing the plot completely just
0:44.8	blin goes show me the money show me the man because I now knew my next fight again was
0:49.8	going to be for the world title. Consegrantly a half decent payday.
0:54.0	They let me down fundamentally that night because of it
0:58.0	I lost the title and dare I say I lost my desire for boxing
1:03.2	subsequent after that fight. I was never quite the same after that fight.
1:06.8	Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Tristics.
1:10.3	What happened in the ring after
1:11.8	Taison only good was Charles Blake compared to that one?
1:15.0	He still a goosepong to this day.
1:17.0	You couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile off his face, could you?
1:23.0	I know.
1:24.0	I tell him bitten me.
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