Today Episode is about Anthony 'Million Dolla' Crolla, who is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2019. He held the WBA lightweight title from 2015 to 2016, and challenged once for the unified WBA and WBO lightweight titles in 2019. At regional level, he held the British lightweight title from 2011 to 2012. The life story of Crolla is about hard work and determination, Crolla went from being upset in his 9th bout to a journeyman, but came back and beat him. He then lost to Gary Sykes in 2009 and came back from that to win the British lightweight title in 2011. He lost that title to Derry Matthews in 2012, and then lost to Sykes again in the Prizefighter tournament, also in 2012. He drew with Mathews in a 2013 rematch.
In short, Crolla was really not supposed to reach the big stages. But he did. And he reached his biggest stages after major injuries suffered outside the ring, as he was left with a fractured skull and broken ankle when confronting burglars in Dec. 2014. He always just kept fighting and never gave up instead pushed on and went on to fight the biggest names in the lightweight division in Jorge Linares and Lomachenko but also beat former world champs in Ricky Burns and Gavin Rees. Crolla really lived his dream, he went from fighting on undercards to headlining his own venues and selling out crowds in the Manchester Arena, time and time again becoming a much supported fighter who fans, specially the mancunians growed to love, chanting his name everytime he made a ring walk and lighting up the atmosphere in the arenas everytime he fought.
He really became a Manchester sporting legend, specially on the night when he silenced the doubters and critics and completed his lifelong dream of becoming a world champion.
