Season 2: #44 Crawford Ashley

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

Crawford Ashley was a Sky Sports staple through the 1990s having reigned as British, Commonwealth and European champion and fighting for world titles. But retirement came and depression and death loomed large. As he struggled to find himself after boxing there were multiple brushes with death. By then, he'd fought a who's who of top fighters, from Michael Nunn and Virgil Hill to Johnny Nelson, Carl Thompson, Nicky Piper, Graciano Rocchigiani, Yawe Davis and Clinton Woods. Here he talks about wanting to fight Chris Eubank, and sparring him, sparring with Lennox Lewis in Big Bear, the horrendous time he endured towards the end of his career and post-boxing, the biggest fights and his fresh and optimistic outlook on life having spent time in Jamaica, Thailand and many places in between. Check out Crawford's YouTube channel The Spiritual Boxer https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCemy0sAyE0F2gz8r0EAB1IQ

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0:30.0	To me it was all about self-defense. If you left me alone, everything's cool.
0:35.0	If you want to push it, let's have a go because I'm not really that bothered.
0:40.0	I was always going in there to see if I could beat the guy. I know when I've been in there
0:48.1	except for one person there's only one fire I've ever been in the ring with. If everything was 100% I don't know whether I could have
0:56.1	beat him. Everybody else had stopped. I know that for a fact because I've shared the ring
1:01.1	with him.
1:04.3	Who are you referring to? Michael Monk.
1:05.3	The guy was just on a different level.
1:10.0	Retirement for me was slow death.
1:15.8	Just sucked all the life.
1:18.1	They'd gone.
1:21.9	Tried to kill myself more than once, lost my wife, lost my children, lost everything.
1:28.0	And, yeah, hit rock box. and yeah
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