Michael Watson, a British boxing legend that organized a remarkable recovery of severe injuries, accepts another challenge on Wednesday to get money for charity.
He will go to the mile to support I-Neuro, a charity organization previously known as Brain and Spine Foundation.
“I live my purpose as an inspiring character, a master of people,” Watson said Sky Sports.
“There are plenty of helpless souls in life, suffering from mental problems, but I just want to let them know, don’t give up.”
Watson visited the boxing gym in front of this charity walk and managed to put on gloves and carefully throw blows on the bag.
In general, he smiled to return to his “home”, in a boxing club, and shouted cheerfully: “You feel” strength “” – a reference to his combat nickname from his boxing days.
Watson was part of a large era for the British box; In 1989 he defeated Nigel Benna and in the second fight with Chris Eubank SR in 1991 suffered his terrible injury.
Watson congratulates Chris Eubank at the London Target Line of Marathon
It did not publish any sense of bitterness to return to the boxing gym, instead Watson found that he was “inspiring”.
“Not only for me,” he said. “No matter what you go through in your life, just keep the will to survive.
“Look at what I have gone through in my life. You are looking at a miracle. If I can do it, someone can do it. Don’t give up.
“Don’t give up hope. Just believe in yourself and continue moving. Life is too rare to give up.”
Peter Hamlyn, founder and president of I-Neuro, is a surgeon who saved Watson’s life.
“It took him 12 years to fight the most amazing disabilities when he went through the marathon in 2003. It was an extraordinary 12 years of fighting to get over the injury. We are now in 2025 and he goes to mile,” Hamlyn said Hamlyn Sky Sports.
“It’s a long way, a mile when you carry its degree of disability.
“It’s like a marathon and really stood up on the line. He had a lot of help.
“He stands up on the line and has made I think that all my life in a very physical way. It’s a hard job and hope to succeed.”
Watson bears a Paralympic flame in London 2012
He also sees Watson as an inspiration.
“He had eight operations in those weeks after his initial injury.
“I did some things for him physically, but what he did for me as an individual when it comes to what is possible, it exceeds.”
