“I’M GOING to get my licence back,” Billy Graham tells Boxing News, reinvigorated by his recovery from two hernias that for so long had affected his quality of life.
“I’ve got no big ideas about becoming a top trainer again – I’ve got no desire to work that hard. I’m too old to be a trainer again. I don’t know what I’m going to do, but I need to be around it more.
“It wasn’t because I’d fallen out of love with boxing [that I left it]. It was because I’d had enough of the people around Ricky Hatton. Me daughter’s mother kept on saying to me, ‘You’ve got to stop – it’s making you ill’, and it did. When I got out, I was physically fucked. Me hands was ruined – they’re ruined now. The doctors was going crazy at me to stop. But as a cornerman, and as a tactician, I was at me peak. I’d so much experience.
“I think, in the back of me mind, I’d always intended to come back. When I retired, I didn’t stop learning. I carried on, because you’re seeing more all the time. I
