Gavin Gwynne interview with Liam Hartery
Channel: SimplyInspired
Date: 2020-05-13

Gavin Gwynne interview with Liam Hartery - today I'm with Gavin Gwynne the Welsh lightweight area champion and British   and Commonwealth title challenger and we're gonna be having a chat about his   life and career today so thank you for taking the time to talk to me today   no problem no problem I mean you know in the beginning like you and boxing   basically starting at the beginning how did you like first get into boxing in   the beginning where did it start for you um as a kid really it was it was a gym   right by me walking distance took me about five minutes to walk there - load   of us rocked up there like just turned had like half hour training and   then do that like every couple of weeks we would just go in there and just have   a couple of rounds on the bag and things like that and then done and then like   that was about  to  I was about  to  we've done that and then went   away from there for a bit and then come back when it was about  and a couple   of couple of weeks of good training and I started sparring and things I found   that's what I loved the sparring I sometimes I would only show up when I   knew it was sparring like so I didn't really like the training bit   and and then I left it there alone like for maybe three to four years obviously   I was at that age I was growing up drinking it was girls involved and went   on the wrong path sort of thing and yeah one day I just I just decided that I   wanted to give it another crack and went back and I really gave him my all every   time I went training I was I was trying to improve myself and get better get   fitter and then I took my old amateur trainer Richard Bev  said how would you   like to fight then I was like busting at the chance I couldn't come wait he   said get your medical sorted and hopefully get you out in the next couple   weeks or I think that was I was about  or  at   the time and my first fight was in the final of the novice championships the  to    category I lost on a split decision but I thought I won it   against a guy from the Army and then I went on to win nine or ten fights then   after that I won the five to ten novice championships during that time beating a   boy from st Joseph's I remember his name Nathan come back to me later on   the thing not yes I won the five to ten novice championships and then they had a   couple of club shows there and then which I remained unbeaten until I think   it was my seventeen or eighteenth fight I went into the open   championships I won in the prelims and then I won in the quarters and then I   faced Zach Davies in the semi-finals then and which I come up short   I thought they'd done enough on the day so did a lot of people and then after   that I had a couple of couple of club shows winning three or four I think it   was and then Colin Jones rung me up one day who was the head of the Welsh team to   come down for sparring so on the weekend they it was the lead up for the commonwealth   games i remember what year it must have been it was the year Fred Evans Andrew   Selby Joe Cordina can remember what year that is and I would have been   was it about twelve thirteen or was it earlier than that because I   think cuz I know I'm trying to think now well I mean Fred was in the Olympic oh   yeah might be a bit later cuz Fred was in the Olympics   yeah I think it   was  I think it was yeah bit later on yeah rather sounds right to me that   that yeah and so I went down there for sparring and obviously I sparred Zack spent loads   around Zack helped him out for the for the tournament and a managed to spa   with Joe Cordina and I think I'm sure I did a couple of rounds with Sean McGoldrick I'm   sure I did and then ever since then they had me   back training in squads on the weekends and then after Commonwealth games I went   into the Open Championship and won it that was a probably one of my proudest   moments as an amateur winning the Welsh vest the open-class Welsh vest   and then I think I went to Spain I went to Spain with Wales and that was   my first my first international tournament then I think I lost in the   quarterfinals all the semi-final I think no it was the quarterfinals they lost to the   Spanish lad I give an absolute tune in as well Colin Jones   he was what have you got to do to get a win I dropped him with a body shot   the second round and everything I like obviously I smashed the lad and now yeah   I think he went to the semis or the final and got stopped in the   final I'm sure it was and then we come home from Spain I