Tony Bellew Reveals His Hero Who Didn’t Wear A Cape

Former cruiserweight champion of the world Tony Bellew went out of boxing on top after an outstanding career in the sport that finished strong.

For years, people in the UK, America, Europe wrote Bellew off saying he would never become champion of the world.

At the end of it he did much more than that and then even went up to heavyweight and beat former heavyweight champion of the world David Haye twice.

Something no one thought he would do either.

He also made it big in Hollywood in a Rocky movie.

Tony Bellew Reveals His Hero Who Didn’t Wear A Cape

His hero is one many have as inspiration and Bellew said on the X platform:

“My hero didn’t wear a cape!!”

Posting a photo of the one and only, Muhammad Ali.

Many whom consider the greatest fighter that ever lived from the sport of boxing.

For all round fighting heart and fighting from a boxer from the sport that is.

Ali was quite a good fighter in all aspects. He appeared to be always interested in winning.

A quite good fighter Ali to say the least.

His contributions to society and the sport of boxing live on forever in heaven above, who will return here to Earth one day.

His daughter Laila Ali was commentating on tonight’s fights in New York.

Boxing has produced a lot of heroes over the years, in the ring and behind the scenes that many don’t even know about that run and oversee the sport.

To ensure it is safeguarded as a professional industry and professional sport for years to come, and continue to win daily and expand aggressively and rapidly worldwide in the time ahead.

The sweet science has produced as well many in boxing not known to the general public importantly helping injured fighters and champions and so on and so forth.

Maybe a good idea for fighters like Prichard Colon, Nick Blackwell and others injured in prize fights in the future for boxing would be something like the great people and organization in military circles in the US called the Wounded Warrior Project here: https://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/.

A non profit for physically injured and disabled veterans.

Boxing could roll out something more worldwide between the US, UK, Japan, Germany, Italy, Australia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, India, Pakistan, China, Russia, South Korea, North Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela and Cuba to roll it out at the beginning between major countries and super powers like the above firstly.

To unite more of the East and West maybe through boxing more on a government and industry level.

It would need more government and private people coordination in these countries to kick it off between the big population, big land terrain and big powerful countries and economies first.

You could get World Boxing and the IBA in amateur boxing, all the sanctioning bodies, promoters and TV companies and streaming companies in professional boxing, to maybe donate 0.20% of revenue (just a 5th of a single point/per centage only) of revenue worldwide generated across the entire amateur boxing and professional boxing industries combined to achieve this.

As well as bringing in official government and private industry and crowd funding donations as well.

To put into this fund for injured fighters who competed in professional boxing towards their health care or whatever is deemed suitable by their loved ones/full-time carer and so on.

Maybe have less than five staff running that worldwide.

A non-profit based in the fight capital of the world of Las Vegas in the US with a national commissioner for boxing in the US one day that has oversight worldwide for the sport as well.

Oversight as well over the potential non profit and over all the major professional fights in boxing worldwide.

Like a Roger Goodell of boxing but for the US and worldwide.

Alas, on everyday heroes, boxing has created maybe more of them than any other sport in its history.

From cut men, referees, officials and amateur coaches in grass roots boxing in countries around the Earth, to powerful individuals, organizations, entire countries and teams behind the scenes.

Boxing is a sport that many people love around the world. Boxing is coming into a boom time of rapid growth and expansion like never before.

Returning to its rightful place near the top of the pantheon and pinnacle of all worldwide professional sport.

With major fights and events happening everywhere on TV and streaming giants weekly.

Now even the UFC are moving into boxing promoting. Let that sink in.

Commercial and official government confidence in professional boxing continues to erupt in growth week after week.

That is a true fact of life and now the new generation around the world are getting to see this great sport on platforms like Netflix, DAZN, Amazon Prime Video, Sky Sports and many more new platforms in the East.

Boxing doesn’t last forever for everyone though and sadly at some point new ventures and horizons are sought by all professional fighters.

Very few leave on top, undisputed and undefeated like Joe Calzaghe and some others.

This is something important that professional fighters must think about during their lives and professional careers while still fighting as active prize fighters.

In the end, sure, boxing has produced both heroes in the boxing ring and outside of it in the sport.

It always has and always will.

Even Hollywood, to this day, in their realm, surely above batman, superman or any hero in fiction, TV, movie or pop culture stuff (look, society likes all that superficial stuff and red carpet awards stuff, not for us though, each to their own) there is only one in that world.

‘The Italian Stallion’ Rocky Balboa.

If you could combine Hollywood’s Rocky, Panama’s Roberto Duran, Ireland’s Steve Collins, Scotland’s Scott Harrison, Argentina’s Marcos Maidana, Canada’s Arturo Gatti and Irish American Mickey Ward’s blood and guts warrior hearts from all of the above, with American Muhammad Ali’s and Mexico’s Julio Caesar Chavez’ fighting spirit, and Americans Floyd Mayweather and Sugar Ray Robinson’s brains and technical genius, what a version of Rocky that would have been?