Recently in Tony Jeffries Category

FIRST I'd like to apologise to the people who read my blog on a regular basis for the inactivity of it recently.

I did my very first blog before the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and have been doing them regularly until the New Year.

Since I've started doing a weekly column for the Sunday Sun I haven't really had the time to do a blog, but now I've got the chance so here we go.

I'M living like a monk out here in Los Angeles - and loving it!

To be honest, my life out here is pretty boring. I spend most of my time when I'm not training either in the room I rent or the local coffee shop. But that's the best way for me to be if I want to become a champion.

TODAY was a big day for me. After 90 days out, I finally started sparring again.

I cut my eye in a fight with Tommy Tolan just before Christmas, and needed 18 stitches in it. I thought the cut had healed, but it opened when I began sparring again in February, and I had to have an operation to remove the scar tissue.

It's taken until today before I could start taking punches in practice.

ALL this time without a fight has been making me even more hungry!

It's four months since I last stepped into the ring, and I've only done a round-and-a-half in just less than a year.

IT'S six month since i started training in Los Angeles with Tommy Brooks and I've been in Los Angeles for of them, but the weekend just gone was the weirdest of them all.

It's been really interesting to see the Americans' reaction to the two big news stories out here recently.

MY girlfriend, Sarah, has seen me box loads of times, but I'd never seen her at work until we went to the cinema this week - and I was really impressed!

Sarah is a nurse at Sunderland's A&E department, and she's studying so she can work in the Los Angeles hospitals while we're out here.

But she got a bit of unexpected practice when we went to watch Russell Brand's latest film, Arthur, this week, in Downtown LA.

MY girlfriend, Sarah, has seen me box loads of times, but I'd never seen her at work until we went to the cinema this week - and I was really impressed!

Sarah is a nurse at Sunderland's A&E department, and she's studying so she can work in the Los Angeles hospitals while we're out here.

But she got a bit of unexpected practice when we went to watch Russell Brand's latest film, Arthur, this week, in Downtown LA.

MY girlfriend, Sarah, has seen me box loads of times, but I'd never seen her at work until we went to the cinema this week - and I was really impressed!

Sarah is a nurse at Sunderland's A&E department, and she's studying so she can work in the Los Angeles hospitals while we're out here.

But she got a bit of unexpected practice when we went to watch Russell Brand's latest film, Arthur, this week, in Downtown LA.

MY girlfriend, Sarah, has seen me box loads of times, but I'd never seen her at work until we went to the cinema this week - and I was really impressed!

Sarah is a nurse at Sunderland's A&E department, and she's studying so she can work in the Los Angeles hospitals while we're out here.

But she got a bit of unexpected practice when we went to watch Russell Brand's latest film, Arthur, this week, in Downtown LA.

WHEN you're a teenager you get up to all sorts of daft things, but sometimes it's only when you get older you realise how costly they can be.

Recently I've had to spend hundreds of pounds - not to mention driving to London and back in a day - all because of a bit of messing about when I was 14.