Season 5: #5 Anthony Crolla Part 2

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Back from only the 15th episode at the start of Boxing Life Stories, Anthony Crolla returns as a guest to talk about the tail end of his career, getting 'tasered' by Vasyl Lomachenko, his farewell fight and life after boxing.

One of British boxing's good guys looks back over his long, successful time in the ring and ahead to his new life outside it, as a coach and top pundit for radio and TV.

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0:00.0	I couldn't move, I couldn't get up, I definitely asked what was you about this, but when I was
0:04.1	you didn't know.
0:05.1	So I'm like, I'm laying on the floor, I feel like I've been tazered.
0:08.8	Thinking I can't move, and I locked me in stupid face first, eh?
0:13.6	Do you know what, does that feel a bit guilty?
0:16.4	I feel a bit guilty, because I know people who struggle, I know lads who struggle, who
0:20.3	have a good lads, and you were saying, you know, can you relate to those fighters because
0:25.0	you've handled it, but I can relate to them.
0:28.8	Like, with a lad there who's on the other weekend, you broke it down for an hour, what you
0:35.0	got paid, the hours you spent with him, and that's not including the petrol driving to
0:39.8	you from.
0:40.8	Probably gets about £1.50 a training session, going training someone for the hour and
0:44.9	get fought.
0:45.9	You could, you know what, it's, it's mad like, I um, but it's, it is, it's, that's what I think
0:53.7	would be boxing.
0:54.7	Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Kristik.
0:57.7	What happened in the ring after tasting only good with his, his child's play compared
1:01.7	to that?
1:02.7	Instead of going to this day?
1:05.7	You couldn't take the potatoes from his eyes or the sly office face, couldn't you?
1:09.7	I know.
1:10.7	I shouldn't have beaten me.
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