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Boxing Life Stories

Season 5: #2 Jon Thaxton

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 β€’ 1.6K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Jon Thaxton is a former British lightweight champion who boxed the likes of Ricky Hatton, Eamonn Magee, Emanuel Augustus, Yuri Romanov, Jon Murray and Paul 'Scrap Iron' Ryan.

He worked with Brendan Ingle and Norwich stalwart Graham Everett, became close to Herbie Hide, Naseem Hamed – whom he served as a sparring partner for – and Johnny Nelson, and now he works changing the quality of people's lives through health and fitness in Norwich.

Thaxton is a great talker and wonderful storyteller.

Transcript

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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.

0:14.2

You won't be moved automatically,

0:15.9

so look out for your letter explaining what you'll need to do and by when.

0:19.5

And there's also lots of support to help you make the move.

0:22.4

Get ready for your universal credit switch over.

0:25.4

Search, understanding universal credit today, eligibility criteria apply.

0:30.4

The trainer said to me, Jonathan, second trainer session.

0:33.6

Come out to me, he said, Jonathan, come here.

0:35.7

I rushed up to him. I said, yes, I was like eight, nine years old.

0:39.3

He said, get your bag, get your stuff and get out of my gym.

0:44.0

I said, why? He said, because you're crap.

0:47.4

And I just thought, you know what?

0:49.6

I'm winning tonight.

0:50.8

I'm winning and the place was absolutely rammed, packed.

0:55.4

I start at a good start, but he just played with me.

0:58.3

He was laughing at me and winding me up and making me angry,

1:02.0

making me angry.

1:03.1

And he was absolutely like, say, brilliant.

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