Monty Ogilvie Interview with Liam Hartery
Channel: SimplyInspired
Date: 06/05/2020

Monty Ogilvie Interview with Liam Hartery - boxing, boxing match, boxing news, boxing highlights, boxing photographs, boxing matches full fights, boxing match highlights, boxing highlights 2019, boxing motivation - hi everyone thanks for watching today   today I'm with Monty Ogilvie professional   boxer and Celtic title challenger   thanks for being with us today Monty the   coolest name in boxing by the   way I like that that's gotta be yeah   that's got one of the coolest names I've   heard in in boxing   it's a unique one my dad is my dad's   called John and decided that he wanted me   to have an interesting name so he called   me Montgomery Monty for short   yeah I like that but you know it makes   you stand out in the ring   It's a good name see some good names a   memorable name I'm sorry for cutting across I got him to    thank you for that   it influences my walk out music as well I walk out to Tom Jones you   'You can Leave Your Hat On' by Filmore yeah okay   that's a great song that's a good choice you   know something a bit different I like   that actually because you often hear   people walk up to the same type of thing   you know so it's nice when when   like when I'm at fights and somebody   walks out to the same type of thing    so it's a bit different yeah   so let's start at the beginning I mean   you know you and boxing   I mean how did you first get into boxing   how did the journey begin for you in the   sport ? I grew up and I lived in the   middle of nowhere called Kiln so it's   right in the middle of nowhere but and   quite a small high school I am really far   back when I was in primary school I really   really struggled with everything and   really really struggled and I was just   slow its go slow and and I wasn't very   good academically or physically I couldn't play   football wand with Rugby I was always put in goals   playing football my me mates because I were   useless and I think it kind of stuck with   me you know I remember as sad as it sounds   but I remember my parents   like at a parents evening through   school and I was there and I was all the   pictures on the wall everyone had done   in our art class but mine wasn't on the wall   because it wasn't very good   I always liked fighting and that kind of stuck with me and growing up  fighting   and always like I liked fighting   Bruce Lee I liked martial arts   movies and when I went into    high school aged  to    and not what I saw   But I got in a lot of trouble for   fighting    the bigger boys and I was quite     small and my moum had a friend whose   son boxed called Mark I did'nt know him very   well and he took down to the boxing club and   he stopped going I just kept going and I   love it right away So Okay that's how   it started and I know that your   amateur career was obviously   a bit sort of touch and go I mean   could you sort of tell us a little bit   more about your amateur career? Well as I   say I love boxing straight away really and I was   in and out of the gym and    properly started going to that club   two months   at the Boxing Club two   and I got put forward for a bout   and won my first bout as an   amateur and beat a boy about  years ago now   and David Johnson's   name was and then after I lost     of my next  bouts and    on the next  and thats why I kept   training and you know I've got a bit   disheartened and and everything and everything   was going on was quite    hard you know and I lost a lot fights but I   loved it and was so passionate about the sport   I stuck it out and I kept training and   around that time me and my mates went off to University   when I was  and I didn't box for two   years So there was no training and I hadn't    boxed and I decided I'll have a   crack at this just for the fun of it   really and then I wound up winning seven   bouts in a row when I came back and and   then I lost one and three in a row   and then went on to win a    title and just the district title   and then went onto win the university title    Oh then I boxed a couple of them Scottish   selects So boxed and then went over to Cyprus and   thaen boxed in England and yeah that's kinda   what happened it just it took off and it   was it like everything in my life like   even university even though I struggled at   school and I struggled and I struggled   with sports to struggle with everything but for   boxing and boxing taught me if you   persevere like you get through things   and you come through the other end of it   and thats how it was for me So I left   school where I had pretty poor grades I went   to college for a couple years and then   all of a sudden I realised you    work hard I'll get the good grades and I   wound up going to uni I just can't   stumbled into it all and it was all just   through just hard