Tony Bellew On Fighting Andre Ward, Retirement, His TV Persona, Who Can Beat Usyk

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Tony Bellew talks about facing up to life after boxing, starring in numerous TV shows, his boxing identity, the heavyweight landscape and old foe Oleksandr Usyk and who would have won had he fought Andre Ward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network.
0:04.8	Hello, welcome back to Boxing Conversations.
0:07.4	I'm joined by Tony Bellew, former Boxing Life Stories alumni and a guy whose career I covered in significant detail.
0:18.2	I sort of stayed loosely in touch with Tony in retirement, but he was at
0:23.7	a media day last week for to sort of publicise the Ben Eubank rematch this weekend. And he was there
0:31.4	with George Groves and Carl Frotch and we were all allocated, or I say we were all, there was
0:36.9	about five of us who allocated 15 minutes with each fighter.
0:39.8	So I recorded interviews with George, with Tony, and with Carl Frotch.
0:44.8	We rolled them out this week.
0:47.2	Tony, it was great to catch up with.
0:48.7	I've actually only just spoken to him in the last couple of weeks asking if he could do something for this YouTube channel.
0:55.2	So it was nice to see him in person.
0:56.6	Always good to have a catch up with him.
0:59.2	I do remember him from what's going on for about 20 years ago now.
1:03.2	But yeah, it was good to talk to Tony about so many different things.
1:08.8	We could go on and on.
1:10.1	We obviously did a couple of hours for when we did the Boxing Live Stories podcast,
1:13.7	but it was superb to catch up with him and talk about his career, his life, life after boxing,
1:20.7	and so much more.
1:22.1	Before I leave you with Tony, you guys can follow me at Trisdixon on Instagram and on X.
1:28.3	You can see clips of most of these interviews on TikTok at Tristix and Boxing.
1:32.9	And I'm also putting these interviews up on YouTube.
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