00:00He knows Stacky, he knows personality, he's someone that is bubbly, lively, always makes people feel
00:06warm so he's got a lot of friends in football. Had a phone call from Stacky, speak to Stacky now
00:11and then but just had a phone call from Stacky out of the blue and I was like okay what's this
00:15about? Rang him back, all right mate how's it going blah blah did my media course with Stacky
00:19and all that thinking oh maybe you want to get back into the media. All right mate yeah I've
00:22got this idea for a charity do yeah I want to do this do that I was like okay yeah I'll get
00:27involved like yeah what are we doing? Thinking a game, a match, a football match, not football
00:31no no no not golf, no boxing. It's like all right and we want you to fight and I'm like
00:37what? He goes yeah we're going to get 10 former footballers, get them to fight and then we're
00:42going to try and obviously sell out the Grove now and get a big crowd to raise some money
00:46for these excellent charities and I was like okay and kind of it took me back a bit but
00:51then I was like sure yeah and I was like hang on I've said yeah but let's speak to my wife
00:56first because being a combat sport I need to make sure she's comfortable with it and
01:00she was like go for it so yeah I think as soon as I could get involved in it I was buzzing
01:06and then from there it's just all the focus has been on boxing. It's weird I'm watching
01:10boxing differently now you know I'd be that armchair one that's sitting there watching
01:13Crawford and Canelo are two of the best and I'm saying oh why did he not just slip and
01:17give him like I know like the people that watch football are over and telling us that we're
01:20doing it wrong. I was like that but now I just watch it in a totally different light
01:24and again I've always had respect for boxers the stuff they put themselves through I've
01:27trained in Tommy Coyle back in the day when I was in hole and I only did a few bits of
01:31training with him the respect I had for him was a joke but even more so doing it weeks
01:36in weeks out now is phenomenal and the level of respect I've got for boxers is literally
01:42there it's unreal. So how is it putting them football boots to one side picking up the
01:48gloves because it's very very different sports? Yeah yeah listen I was a I said it on the press
01:53conference I'm a dopey centre-half so I'm used to like being clashing heads and getting but
01:58usually they're not actually just trying to punch you in the head or trying to kick you
02:02in the face or whatever it is whereas now I'm going in with Paddy and Paddy's trying to punch
02:06made off and I'm trying to do the same to him and I'm also doing it against someone that I actually
02:10like so that's obviously strange dynamic as well but I think the big thing is football was easy
02:18because we've done it since we were kids I can do football with my eyes closed so when we've got
02:23a charity football match I'll go through a few runs I'll have a little stretch I'll do a little
02:27bit just to make sure that I'm fit enough for the game and then the mind takes over whereas this
02:32the mind's ticking on overdrive because I'm trying to put the cogs together so it's kind of like
02:37right I now need to keep my hands up I need to work the jab I need to step this way I need to step
02:41that way and when you're trying to put it all together that's all good in training because
02:44you're doing it bit by bit then when you step in the ring for a spa you're trying to put it all
02:48together against someone that I've spalled with a pro that's 9-0 it's totally different because
02:54he's catching me with shots I feel like I'm doing the right things but he's catching me with shots
02:57and all of a sudden you're getting protective you're overprotective you're showing too much and I think
03:01that's the big thing it's um boxing is a discipline where keeping your form is the most valuable thing
03:09because you keep your form you're a bit more relaxed you you've got more of a chance uh football
03:13is different because if you're having a bit of a bad time in football you've got 10 teammates to
03:18help you or you can maybe just try and I don't know if you're a skillful player try and beat someone
03:22and make something happen in boxing there's no one to help you you have to do it yourself so if you're
03:27not prepared and you're not doing it the right way you're doing off the cuff kind of stuff you might
03:31be lucky with an off the cuff hook or something like that yeah you might land a good shot but if
03:35you're going in there and you're going off the cuff which neither of us are doing um you're going to
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