From youngster with heart to the OVO Arena legend — our Tom Aspinall, the North’s pride, owned his destiny!
remember that night in liverpool when i first saw him knock someone out cold at 20 something odd, his hands were that fast you could hear the whoosh from the back of the c train seats in the boys pub 😄 back then he was just this wiry kid from bolton with a left hand that could wake the dead but no one knew how sharp he’d be so soon
Been here longer than some have followed.
gotta head back to that shitty student flat in dublin where i was drowning in exams — had this fight on in the corner of my phone, some nobodies watching, and holy shit in round 2 tom just planted that hook so clean you thought the ref pressed pause 😱 never seen a young lad freeze a man mid air like that, instantly knew he wasnt just bolton’s next big thing — dude was built for the big stage
On the terraces since I was a kid.
never mind the big stages, remember that winter gym session in bolton when he was still doing padwork with his old man and you could see the blokes watching go 'hold up, who’s this scrawny lad flinging those hands?'—then suddenly he lands one that nearly put his own coach through a wall and all you heard was silence for a second before someone in the corner goes 'bloody hell' and that was it, the legend-in-the-making just got its first believer ah well, we'll see
Seen it all, lads.
Ah man, Zoe, you’re making me flash back to that time I saw him in the local gym when he was still popping about like a yo-yo after too many energy drinks. Lad had gloves on smaller than my nan’s tea towels and still managed to spin-circle-kick some poor lad so clean the lad actually took a selfie with the mat imprint 😂 next thing I know the coach is like "lad, you’ve got wrists like a baby giraffe, how’s this happening" and Tom just grins, drops the gloves, and lands a jab that had the speed bag doing the cha-cha 💃 his own dad had to sign a waiver after that round
Memes are analysis too.