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I've always said boxing will not retire me, I will retire from boxing, and I stand by that statement.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Always Me Will
Me Stand Will
Statement
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I will beat Andre Ward. I will knock out Andre Ward. He's a pound-for-pound king, but I will beat him.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Andre
Ward
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Just because I beat David Haye doesn't make me a great fighter. I'm still the same fighter that I was.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
David
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I don't claim to be the best boxer in the world. What I claim to do is give 100% when I get in that ring.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Ring
Boxer
Claim
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Boxing is all about timing. And if you take long periods of inactivity, you will be made to pay the price.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Inactivity
Periods
Timing
Long Periods
Price
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Make no mistake about it: nobody gives you nothing for nothing. You have to work hard to get what you want.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Make No Mistake
Work Hard
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I guess it's rare, but even though I come from a broken home, I still believe I have the most amazing father.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Most Amazing
Rare
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I like the thought of gaining revenge over WBC light-heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, who beat me in 2013.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Revenge
Gaining
Stevenson
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You'll never see me go into a fight and struggle to get up for it. I understand first and foremost what's at stake.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Foremost
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Tyson Fury should be looked at as someone who conquered the world, defeating a nine-year king in Wladimir Klitschko.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Fury
Tyson
Conquered
Defeating
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I've never chosen the easy route to world titles or the easy route in fights, and I came up short against Stevenson.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Chosen
Titles
Route
Stevenson
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The difference between me and David Haye is that I want to be a fighter, he hates it, but he has to fight, remember that.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Differences
Fighting
Hate
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I've mixed sparring partners up. I've done tons upon tons of rounds with big, heavy lumps who are trying to take my head off.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Heavy
Partners
Rounds
Sparring
Mixed
Tons
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Usyk could beat me - he's beaten better than me, so he could beat me - but I just don't think he will, and I will find a way.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Beaten
Me Better Will
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David Haye was a better fighter than me, but it's not about the better fighter because the better fighter does not always win.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
David
Better Always Me
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Do I beat a fully fledged, fully fit Tyson Fury? Probably not. But do I beat a Tyson Fury that's been out of the ring for two years? Yes.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Fury
Tyson
Ring
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There will be no more fighting from me. The only things you will see me doing from here on in is trying to act sensible and behave myself.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Behave
Sensible
Myself Me Fighting
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I just struggle with the fame thing and people thinking I'm something I'm not. I'll always struggle with that until the day I die, I think.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Fame Thing
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As a heavyweight, I've not missed dieting. Those days where you're sore or tired, it makes me feel happy to know I can eat a bar of chocolate.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Chocolate
Dieting
Bar
Heavyweight
Missed
Sore
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People wonder why I dislike my opponents. It's not personal or that I hate them: it's just that I know what I've had to sacrifice to face them.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Dislike
Opponents
Sacrifice
Wonder
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All these stipulations, I'm surprised [David Haye ] didn't ask me to carry him to that seat. The demands are unbelievable, my demands were let me pick my own gloves.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Demand
Gloves
Stipulations
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I want people to remember me when I retire as a fighter who would fight anyone - that Tony Bellew was scared of no one. I'm happy with that. Anything more is a bonus.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Bonus
Remember Me
Fight Me Remember
Tony
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Some people have asked me do you think I got David Haye at the right time, but nobody said it was the right time when he weighed in with a six-pack, looking fantastic.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Time Me People
David
Time Me Looking
Weighed
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I'm just a normal fellow who gets punched in the face for a living and gets punched really hard at times as well. But you know what? I'm all right at punching them back.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Punching
Fellow
Punched
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My dream is to fight at Goodison Park. Forget Wembley, or Vegas, I just want to fight at Goodison Park. It's been a dream ever since I was a child; no one's ever done it.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Vegas
Park
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My goal first and foremost when I walk into that boxing ring is to get home safe to my missus and three children, because they're all in life that need me, and they really do need me.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Ring
Foremost
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Every single time I step into a ring, the same thing is on the line. Take away belts, take away money, take away glamour and fame. Ultimately, I'm fighting for one thing, and that's my life.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Belts
Glamour
Life Time Money
Ring
Every Single Time
Single Time
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I love fighting. I don't know what it is in me, whether it's a sickness or a gene, but I just love standing in front of another fighter and going for it: they can hurt me, and I can hurt them.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Fighter
Fighting
Hurt
Sickness
Standing
Another
Front
Gene
Whether
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Stylistically, Tommy Hearns is much better than Marvin Hagler - his technique and punching were better - but he just couldn't do it. He couldn't beat Marvin Hagler, and it's because styles make fights.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Punching
Technique
Styles
Stylistically
Tommy
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On May 29 2016, my wildest dreams came true. I became the WBC cruiserweight champion of the world at Goodison Park. The dream location, the dream title, the dream ending, a third-round knockout of Iunga Makabu.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Champion
Location
Wildest Dreams
Ending
Park
Title
Wildest
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Usyk is less of a puncher than Lomachenko but comes with just as high a work rate, so Usyk has to take some to give some to be exciting, whereas Lomachenko has genuine power, and he can stop fighters with that power.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Genuine
Rate
Fighters
Whereas
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You will all laugh and say I wouldn't have a chance, but I would knock Andre Ward out - or I will outbox him. He is a pound-for-pound great, but I can match him on the inside, and he has never fought anyone who could do that.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Great Chance Will
Andre
Fought
Laugh
Match
Ward
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In the build-up to a fight, I am scared, and I do worry about myself. But once I step into that arena, that worry has gone. A switch gets flicked, and I want to do damage. All I care about is doing damage as fast as possible.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Arena
Damage
Scared
Worry
Build-Up
Fast
Step
Switch
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What people have to realise is that it's not the fights that are really hard; it is the training camps. It's living away from home for 12 weeks. It's sparring with guys who are told they will get £1,000 cash if they can drop me.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Camps
Cash
Sparring
Home Me People
Fights
Drop
Realise
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Before I fought Adonis Stevenson in 2013, I had 4lbs to shift in a morning before weighing in. I had zero energy left to train, so the nutritional adviser said the only way was to drag it from my body in a hot bath full of salts.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Zero
Adviser
Drag
Weighing
Bath
Fought
Nutritional
Shift
Stevenson
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I love looking back at the older fights; they don't make them like they used to. Just watching Tommy Hearns, the technique in his punching, the brilliance and the combinations from the likes of Ray Leonard and 'Sugar' Ray Robinson.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Brilliance
Likes
Looking Back
Punching
Sugar
Technique
Fights
Combinations
Ray
Robinson
Tommy
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I had a headache for four days after the first Haye fight. I didn't tell anyone, I just went to bed and thought it would go. But for four days it remained. Then I got my brain scan before the second fight, and I was worried when I went for it.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Bed
Brain
Headache
Worried
Remained
Scan
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I knew about boxing, as my dad could fight. He had a successful security firm in Liverpool, and I'd see him come back from a jog before shadow boxing in the back yard. I'd watch and replicate what he was doing, as kids do. It's funny how things turn out.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Firm
Liverpool
Replicate
Shadow
Jog
Yard
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I used to be a light-heavyweight, and I'm much faster than cruiserweight. That's the reason I didn't struggle with David Haye's speed, and David Haye is much quicker than Oleksandr Usyk with one punch and much, much, more destructive with the way he hits.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Destructive
Faster
Speed
David
Punch
Quicker
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When I left school - or, rather, when I was expelled from school for hitting a kid who had disrespected a teacher - I had nothing, with nowhere to go. Where I'm from, it really means that. Now my family are millionaires. I never dreamed this would be possible.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Family
Teacher
Disrespected
Hitting
Left
School
Now
Nothing
Go
Had
Possible
Dreamed
Expelled
Means
Millionaires
Rather
Where
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I just idolise Nigel Benn, the things he said, how ferocious he was, how intimidating he was - I just loved watching him. As I do the old Mike Tyson, the '89 Mike Tyson. The Tyson who walked to the ring with a white towel on and looked ferocious. He frightened me just watching him.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Frightened
Intimidating
Mike
Tyson
Ring
Ferocious
Looked
Mike Tyson
Towel
Walked
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I know what I am getting into with heavyweights. Not one of them can dictate against me because, firstly, they don't have feet fast enough. Secondly, while there are far better athletes and stronger fighters than me, even some who are quicker, they don't have the ring IQ I have. It allows me to dictate.
Tony Bellew / Professional Boxer
Enough I Am Me
Athletes
Ring
Better Enough Me
Better Me I Am
Dictate
Fighters
Heavyweight
I Am Me Feet
Iq
Quicker
Secondly
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