Jody Morris is quite literally rolling with the punches

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Ex Chelsea Player Jody Morris is quite literally rolling with the punches as she dons a black eye at the press conference  02/10/2025  Grosvenor Hotel, London, UK

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00:00Well, I played with Graham Stackert. He was at Arsenal all the time, but he came on loan to Millwall when I was playing there.

00:06And we've remained friends ever since. And he rung me about, I want to say, probably eight months ago.

00:12And just said, look, I'm thinking of putting on a boxing night and I'm putting the feelers out to a few former footballers.

00:18Would you be up for it? And at the time, I was preparing for the London Marathon and I was injured at the time.

00:25And my body kept, like, packing up on me. And I was like, look, I've got the marathon coming up.

00:30I went, if I come out the other side of the marathon and my body holds up, I went, yeah, it's definitely something I'd be interested in.

00:37As long as you don't put me in with someone who's six foot two or something, I went, yeah, I'll be up for it.

00:41Because I've always been a fight fan, love boxing, went and watched boxing fights all over the world.

00:49And it was something, it's a bit of a bucket list thing. Like I said, I've done the marathon earlier this year.

00:55A little bucket list where I go, do you know what? I've been in the ring and I've had a fight before I get too old.

01:02So, yeah, but obviously the closer and closer October starts coming around and then you've got to start your training.

01:07It was like, yeah, it's a lot more of a reality now. So that was how I got enticed into doing it.

01:13And I'm pleased I have done now because, like I said, I'm maybe sort of four or five weeks into training and feel better for it.

01:19Albeit I've had some tough moments.

01:21Your eye very clearly is showing the tough moments.

01:24It looks all right now. It looks all right. It was in a bad way two or three days ago.

01:28Yeah, I had a sparring session and I'd got a bit of a schooling.

01:33At least you're prepared for the punches. Like you're there. You're like, yeah, I've already dealt with a black eye.

01:39Yeah. I mean, and the thing is as well, the actual black eye, it was probably not even in the top four or five punches he hit me with.

01:45So even though it was the one that looked the worst, I'd have rather taken that punch in over maybe four or five other ones.

01:54But yeah, I think when you're preparing for a fight, I think if you ain't taking any punishment, then maybe you're not preparing right.

02:01You have to go through a few different difficult obstacles. It's like anything, isn't it?

02:05If it's all too easy, then come fight night, then it could be a bit of a shock to the system.

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