Tony Bellew opens up on struggle of 'living fight to fight'I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!, ITV
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00:00 And yeah, and she said, "What do you mean?"
00:02 I said, "Well, we're so far away from financial security,
00:04 "it's unbelievable."
00:06 We were basically skint.
00:07 - What?
00:08 - I wasn't far, yeah, I wasn't far away.
00:10 I had a big, heavy, heavy mortgage.
00:13 And yeah, yeah, and I had won a British Commonwealth,
00:16 European and a world title.
00:18 I wasn't, I shouldn't say skint,
00:20 but listen, I was living on fight to fight.
00:23 - Yeah.
00:24 - I wasn't comfortable.
00:25 - I thought your boxing was really big money.
00:28 - So to put it into context, I defended my world title
00:32 and made okay money.
00:34 - Yeah.
00:35 - After I defended the world title that I just won,
00:38 I then fought David Haye.
00:39 And the fight with David Haye,
00:41 that one fight was four times my whole career combined
00:46 in one night, four times my whole career.
00:51 And then the next time I fought him again,
00:52 I doubled it again.
00:54 The whole network and what I generated doubled it again.
00:56 And then I fought Uzi for the last one
00:58 and then I nearly doubled it again.
01:00 So I was very fortunate it worked out in the end.