Draft · awaiting Moses
How I ate and trained growing up
Moses is writing this one himself — what training and eating actually looked like as a kid in Townhill, with no money and no plan.
The story
One of our own
Townhill and Mayhill
Moses grew up in Townhill and Mayhill, above Swansea, in an area that has been deprived for a long time. His heritage is Jamaican and German. Growing up he was bullied, and he faced racism. He credits boxing with changing that. He does not dwell on it, and neither will this page.
What he says he took from it is a job to do rather than a grievance:
I’m bringing the culture, I’m bringing diversity, I’m bringing unity, I’m bringing character.
Moses Jolly
The roof and the ring
He works as a roofer alongside boxing. Not a gimmick and not a story someone else wrote for him — it is the job, and he sees the same craft in both.
Roofing is an interesting craft. It’s kind of like boxing. You have to sometimes destroy it in order to recreate.
Moses Jolly
Twelve and none
As a professional he is 12–0, with 8 wins inside the distance. He has boxed live on Sky Sports, sparred Daniel Dubois, and in May 2024 appeared on the undercard of Lauren Price’s world title fight in Cardiff. In May 2026 he boxed Will Howe at Neath Sports Centre for the Commonwealth International Heavyweight title, went the full eight rounds, and took it on points.
He is the Commonwealth International Heavyweight champion, and he now fights under the Queensberry banner.
All of that off 3 amateur fights. Most men who reach a world-title undercard have a hundred behind them.
His manager is Mickey Helliet, who has been in the sport for four decades.
He has one of the best jabs I have ever seen, and I have been in boxing for 40 years.
Mickey Helliet, manager
The noise
Welsh crowds have their own call for him. It starts somewhere at the back of the hall and rolls forward — a long, rising “woo” that has the whole room by the time he reaches the ropes. Nobody organised it. It arrived with the people who travelled, and it goes up again every time he lands. A home ring walk in Wales is loud. His is a particular kind of loud.
What he is chasing
No boxer born in Wales has ever held a heavyweight world title. That is the whole ambition, and he states it plainly.
In boxing, I would like to be the first Welsh-born heavyweight world champion.
Moses Jolly