hi I'm domain and this is Davey Johnson meets on today's episode I'm incredibly
lucky to be interviewing the boxing superstar Nicola Adams
could you tell us what your first sporting memory was my first fighting memory was of
Muhammad Ali I saw a rerun of him winning his Olympic gold medal did you say I don't
know we've seen it but there's a video like he's in the corner his is she holding on to
the two rings in the corner and he's just doing that yeah and he slips all the show hasn't been
touched one side I was also sick what tonight it's like it's just like being a ninja he just
you never got touched once yeah so when did you know that you wanted to be a boxer I knew it was
pretty much as soon as I stepped in steps in the ring and I went to the side boxing when I
was 12 and as soon as I got into the gym I was like yeah this is this is what I want to do or
what you said you have your like first ever like boxing fight hours 13 13 yeah yeah yeah
did you have any heroes or mentors whilst or not yeah and my mom was a big mentor for me and she
was a single parent growing up yeah raising two kids two jobs so I always saw how hard she worked
and really inspired me to want to work out and hide myself and as for heroes Muhammad Ali was
he ever was my hero I mean he's Olympic champion and professional boxing world champion and he did
so much outside of the spa as well to inspire and and and help change things that were going
on in those times connect with us as well how many times you train a week because I tried boxing with
my friend light of a week I know it's a one for free minutes and I was literally I was finished
after that like I don't know how you managed to this keep going round after round after round
yeah it's tough training I trained five days a week and twice a day and we do run our strength
and conditioning training on the morning and then we have the boxing in the evening so it's full-on
how long do you have to run the longest room we do is three miles which we have to do in under
20 minutes and then I know right and then the the other runs video or in interval runs and
sprints depending on where we are how close we are to the fight do you have someone who runs
with you and you sprint yeah yeah I beat him Nana I'm always last I'm not very good runner
so obviously you're a double Olympic gold medal medalist so what was it like to achieve that like
how how did it feel because obviously you have the whole nation support here and to be able to do it
twice in a row that's like pretty incredible yeah it was a unreal experience especially to be able
to win the gold medal in London first Olympic gold medal first time women's boxing was in the
Olympics answered to have it at home as well was unreal we may not have another Olympics um
in the UK for maybe another 50 years and every athletes dream is to win an Olympic medal so to
be able to actually win a medal and winner oh yeah full of all friends family and everything
was we were so cool yeah mmm how did you get in the into the right mindset to books also like
before a fight what sort of things you think of and how do you get yourself prepared to do that
I'm quite laid-back I like to put the music on and listen to the music have a laugh and a joke with
the with the coaches we go through the tactics of what I need to do I'm not very superstitious
I don't have to put on one glove and before the the left glove before the right glove or anything
like that because I've seen I've seen that happen so many times where you have people that do that
and then something goes wrong and then all of a sudden the the boxer that's an unbelievable
fighter just crumbles because they've just lost their favor a piece of jewelry or whatever so
I like to keep everything really really relaxed and chilled what genre of music do you listen to
before before a big fight hip-hop R&B funky house dance yeah so obviously you are now a professional
boxer what's the difference between professional and amateur boxing the difference is the head
guards there's no headgear in professional boxing and you do a lot more rounds in the professional
boxing as well in the amateurs it's more about the volume of punches you throw and not so much
the accuracy and then in the professional boxing it's more about planting your feet not moving
around so much and and the accuracy and trying to get more power on your punches get the knock out
my character was and Amy Johnson suffers from ADHD so Howard's ad she affected your life and
what advice would you give to young people suffering from it yeah it's a it's the the
struggle is it's very hard having ADHD because not everybody doesn't realize what it's how it
affects you see it affects you from being forget forgetting things sometimes your attention span
and the like hey you know like there's a light over there oh right like it's so bad it was so
hard at school so I I know the struggle but I think it's about finding something that you're
really passionate about so for me that was that was boxing and computer gaming and I found that
whenever I was doing those things I could really concentrate with the box and pick up on things
that not everybody everybody else had notice you you have the ability to hyper hyper concentrate
on things so like you'll pick up on things that most people were even realize there so
I think the key is finding something that you're passionate about and that can lock your attention
so recent you had to pull out of a world title fight due to an injury so how do
you most how did you motivate motivate yourself to get back in the ring and get
training again just the fact that I want to fight for the world title I want to be
a world tire world champion one day so that for me is enough motivation to get up and get
moving so what advice would you give to young people wanting to put on boxers I'd said yeah
definitely go down to the go down to the gym and if you're not feeling too confident to
go by yourself to take a few friends alone and who knows my Empire of the next gold medalist
so if you won in boxing what career do you think that you'd be in I'd be an actor and yeah yeah I
used to do extra work on Coronation Street and Emmerdale so yeah I'd probably have probably
gone got mud on that path maybe you can help us out in the next series of film of doom you don't
something yeah a coach may be doing what's to become a boxer yeah have you never just sometimes
you not just your hands up and then just get like hit oh yeah yeah that's what yeah cuz I don't I
don't like it in hit so I'm really good with my my defense and I'm moving around I'm sorry also
what's it like so I just want to know this one you like people are nice if someone goes for a party
and you just move out of the way like what does that feel like because they must were like it must
feel so cool to this I slip someone's punch tight like a ninja right yeah is is especially when you
see your opponents getting frustrated but the cataloging points in the light laughing at this
has someone ever like tried to taunt you in the light in the ring so that if they maybe
for a punch and then laughs or something does that happen quite often or not really oh yeah
it does it does yeah and they try to take you out um your mindset try to change your tactics hoping
that you'll get angry luckily I'm from a gym where everybody does that I don't know whether
you've heard of Prince Nazim he used to train there as well it's quite a flashy boxer we switch
stances we're always taught in each other all the time so I'm used to that I'm like yeah bring on
so now we're gonna do some quick ground speed answers so it's just like whatever comes to
mind just pretty much say so Olympic medal war title Olympic medal jab uppercut jab through
the food Pizza Pizza best album of all time Drake take care Drake yeah hello Drake is Oh
frame a subject in school science science I'm I'm super sorry favorite ice cream flavor Oh
strawberry strawberry and do you have any hidden talents I can play the guitar you can maybe cut
off and finally what's the greatest lesson you've known from Watson keep your hands up
well thank you so much for your time it's been amazing to interview you and wish you luck and
all the best thing you do and hurt as many more as water also used to come thank you yeah thank you