Danny Williams

I can see a little bit of London over your left shoulder there, the Thierry Henry shirt.

Yeah, you've got the Thierry Henry, you've got my Danny Williams fight, you've got Muhammad Ali shorts.

Actually, you see those gloves hanging up? They're from the 1940s.

I got it from Port Bella Road Market one year.

but you did have some highs after that.

You had some lows.

There was the loss to Danny Williams, but you avenged that in spectacular fashion.

There was the loss to Michael Sprott, and you avenged that.

What's going on here? What's going

on? I remember when Danny Williams, he had the British, he had the Lonsdale belt.

and there was a WBO convention out in Las Vegas, and he brought his Lonsdale belt out with him, and it was me, him, and Ricky, Ricky Hatton, and we got in the lift, and Ricky said to him, look, have it with you, they're going to want to see this belt, so Danny was walking him out with his Lonsdale belt in a carrier bag, a little co-op carrier bag, And Ricky kept laughing.

And I didn't know what was in the bag.

I hope he doesn't...

Was it Danny Williams who just kept going? I think he may even be fighting now still, Danny Williams.

I hope he doesn't get to that point, but I've always thought Derek Chisora...

That Wilder fight, I'd never believed that would be the last one, and I certainly don't think now.

when he's had children.

And I also know that money is exceptionally important to him, but he's got shitloads of it.

Whereas Danny Williams didn't.

And that appeared to be what kept Danny Williams fighting on and off and living off that reputation as the man who once beat Mike Tyson.

I mean, in your pro career, I think, if I'm correct, you had about 26 fights.

But, of course, the one that everybody remembers is the fight with Danny Williams.

What are your memories of that? I was loving every second of it.

But people forget, people forget I took the fight at six days' notice.

And I remember giving Denny a kiss on the cheek before I started the sixth round.

And I actually went out and I actually started boxing.

And I thought, how easy is this? I'm actually out jabbing Danny Williams here.

short sharp fast combination i remember his eyes shaking and as they sort of shook he took a step back across the ring and i went to walk in i moved my head and i went to walk in again this is the god's honest truth i literally thought i'm like the british belt around my waist i'm gonna hold the commonwealth belt above my head and that was my thought as i walked in if you watch me uh get caught my head's up in the air and i don't find punches i'm just specifically would get a bit more time and then as he comes in i then forward and he pushed me down the back i thought i can get another blow here as he pushed me down the referee carried that's another knockdown and that was the end of that so yeah how did you react to losing to that fight oh i i literally spiraled into it's the only time my life i mean i missed the project i think that i i like i like my and then they threw me in at Wembley against a Russian guy called Vasiliev for a 12 round in the continental belt and I watched him fight before and I just thought I'm going to knock this guy out in the first round and I can move on but then I'm going to sort my head out.

Right? Yeah.

and a guy called Danny Williams who went on to beat Mike Tyson.

They all boxed for that club.

Me being the senior, I was a super heavyweight.

And Spencer will second this opinion.

He helped all of us.

from that club people went on to like i said danny williams went on to become he changed clubs then he went on to the lynn lynn athletic and spencer i think changed clubs also amateur clubs spencer went on to become a pro a very good professional he had a very good career and danny williams went on to be my tyson that's fine there's another chap called marcus mccray who boxed back, he also turned pro.

A few of the guys, my juniors, these are all my juniors.