NATASHA JONAS: Boxing legend on unified titles, hitting rock bottom, quitting, the Olympics & more

** This episode was first uploaded in March 2023 ** Liverpool boxer Natasha Jonas talks to The Scouse Code about her life, love of football, her journey to boxing glory and the role her family has had in her life. Known as Miss GB, Jonas was the first female boxer to compete at an Olympics for Great Britain - on the biggest stage of all at London 2012. But her story of success had many highs and lows which made this scouser dig deep and prove to herself she can reach the top in the sport. At the time of recording this episode - Natasha holds the WBO female junior-middleweight, WBC female super-welterweight and the IBF Light middleweight titles. Jonas was speaking to Olympic Taekwondo medallist Bianca Cook and former BBC Sports reporter Paul Garrity at Gallaghers Boxing Gym in Bolton. Follow us on Instagram: The Scouse Code: https://www.instagram.com/weareclub82/ Natasha Jonas: https://www.instagram.com/tashatf12/ Bianca Cook: https://www.instagram.com/biancawalkdentkd/ Paul Garrity: https://www.instagram.com/paulgarritymedia/ This podcast was produced by PabsMedia: Website: https://www.pabsmedia.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pabsmedia/ Table of contents =============== 0:00 - Coming up 0:45 - Introduction 1:34 - Welcome 3:23 - Success in her 30s 5:45 - What belts does Natasha Jonas have? 6:22 - Where did it all begin? 10:48 - Rock bottom & finding boxing 13:23 - The first fight of her career 18:23 - Early success & Olympic qualification 22:05 - Being a boxing trailblazer 25:27 - 2012 Olympic heartbreak 31:50 - Retiring from boxing 34:28 - Life without boxing 40:36 - Being a proud mum 43:11 - The boxing comeback 48:20 - The first professional fight 51:00 - Success in professional boxing 54:45 - Having a sporting family & sister Nikita Parris 58:15 - Media work & Sky Sports 59:18 - Natasha's thoughts on women's boxing 1:00:56 - Being a proud scouser & purple bins! 1:03:04 - Thank you Natasha 1:03:17 - End titles #boxing #podcast #liverpool #natashajonas #thescousecode #scouser