Boxer breaks record for most thrown punches in 24 hours

I started boxing when I was 10 years old. I won seven national titles. I won a European gold medal

and at the age of 23 I won an Olympic bronze medal for Great Britain. I got told that I could

never punch ever again. I damaged both of my hands. I had a hole in one knuckle, a big tear in the

other tendon. I had surgery on both hands but my hands didn't recover. I got told that I would

never be able to punch again. It was then when I went down a bit of a dark spiral in life

When I was little, I used to collect the Guinness World Record books. Couldn't wait to

look inside of them and see all of the extraordinary achievements done by all of

these extraordinary people. Fast forward 30 plus years right now, my children are doing the exact

same thing. I wanted to show my children that with hard work and dedication and the right mindset

we also can do extraordinary things I just thought that this is the perfect record for me to attempt When the event started I felt pretty good I got over 6 punches in the first hour

which was above my target. And then hour two, three, four, I had lots of people around me in the gym

that was supporting me and watching. Hour five and six, I was getting energy from I didn't know where

and I had my headphones on and I was singing along and going along. I was like, yeah, I'm breathing this

I was 8, 9, 10. I pushed myself a little bit harder

But then, after hour 12, it made me think, what have I done

I should have slowed these first 12 hours down because I went too hard

And when I come to hour 12, that's when reality kicked in

How am I going to get through this for another 12 hours? And then I went out for hour 13

and it was a really tough hour. I got into hour 14 and I felt good

And then hour 15, I felt good and I was like, I'm back on track now

And it was great. Hour 17, hour 18. And then something happened on hour 19 what really hit me hard And for some reason I thought I was starting hour 21 and I said to my wife only three hours left and she went three hours You got five hours left

And I turned and I looked at the clock on the wall, and I seen I had five hours left

And then by the time I got to hour 21, this was when the fatigue in my shoulders really started

kicking and I was hurting, hurting a lot. Every single punch I was throwing, never it was burning

My daughter, before I started this record, she created a little badge for me about this big

and we stuck it on the bag and I remember at this point when my shoulders were burning

I could see this while I was punching and it really made me think why I'm doing this

and I thought about my three young daughters and that really did help me push through that burning sensation

and get through hour 22, 23, until we got at hour 24

And it was here where I achieved something pretty extraordinary Before I started this record

my goal was to get 84,600 punches. That's the equivalent of one punch a second for 24 hours

The final number that I ended up getting was 147,218 punches. 1.7 punches a second for 24 hours

We as human beings can do what we put our mind to

And this is what I'm telling my kids now. I remember my mum told me, if you want to do things that no one else has done

you've got to do things that no one else does. I stand in the gym, punching the heavy bag for 24 hours

Yeah, people is not doing that. And now that I've done it, I know that my great great grandkids, grandkids

will probably hear about the time that their great great great great great great grandad

achieved something pretty spectacular in getting a Guinness World Record