Season 5: #1 Scott Quigg

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 156 minutes

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Summary

Former world super-bantamweight champion Scott Quigg talks about the single-mindedness that took him to the top of the sport.

He discuses the sacrifices he has made to reach the pinnacle in a fights against the likes of Rendall Monroe, Carl Frampton, Kiko Martinez and Oscar Valdez.

The former champion also talks about his life after boxing, and what it was like learning from coaches including Brian Hughes, Ricky Hatton, Joe Gallagher and Freddie Roach – as well as being a stablemate of Puerto Rican great Miguel Cotto.

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0:00.0	Are you receiving tax credits?
0:02.0	If so, this message is for you.
0:04.4	Tax credits are coming to an end,
0:06.2	and most people will be asked to apply for universal credit instead.
0:10.0	The Department for Work and Pensions is writing to tax credit claimants.
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0:19.5	And there's also lots of support to help you make the move.
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0:25.4	Search, understanding universal credit today.
0:28.0	Eligibility criteria apply.
0:30.1	I had no, I had no, my feelings, emotions, senses, they were switched off.
0:37.2	Because the way I lived, the way I was, I was dedicated, I was at how much time I lived for boxing.
0:48.7	I was married to boxing.
0:50.4	Business is business.
0:53.6	You have no friends in business.
0:55.5	If anybody tells you you are friends in business, the lion or the naive,
1:00.6	because where these money, you are, you could trust me,
1:06.8	because I'm not money driven whatsoever, but where these money involved,
1:12.9	these old snakes involved.
1:14.8	The, the bell went and I'm walking back to the corner and I'm thinking,
1:24.0	I can't do another two more rounds of this.
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