“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.”

English former professional boxer

Tony Bellew is an English former professional boxer born in 1982. He competed from 2007 to 2018 and later became a boxing analyst and commentator. Bellew held the WBC cruiserweight title from 2016 to 2017. Before that, he won the British and Commonwealth light-heavyweight titles between 2010 and 2014, and the European cruiserweight title from 2015 to 2016. As an amateur, he was a three-time ABA heavyweight champion. He also played the boxer Ricky Conlan in Creed and Creed III.