Virgin Media viewers have heaped praise on 'role model' Jason Quigley after he starred in a brilliant documentary tonight.
The 'Jason Quigley: Lift Your Heels' documentary centres around his mental health struggles, his desire to become a boxing world champion and his fight against undefeated American Demetrius Andrade last November for the WBO World Middleweight title.
Quigley's journey takes centre stage as he reflected on his defeat to Andrade at the end of the documentary after a detailed look at his family life and battles with anxiety.
And fans were full of praise for Quigley as he concluded the documentary by declaring that he will bounce back from the career low.
One tweeted: "Great documentary on @jay_quigley great role model and just a great guy."
Another said: "Sure I just can’t NOT watch!! One of the loveliest young men, the county will always be proud of him."
Ireland Olympic medalist Kenny Egan said: "Great show tonight on the hardship that goes with being an athlete. Fair play to @jay_quigley such a professional in every sense of the word."
Ahead of the documentary, Quigley opened up about his mental health struggles in an honest interview.
He told The Irish Mirror: "When I look back on my life, there's so many parts of my life that I didn't enjoy that I should have enjoyed because of just mental health, because of anxiety, because of pressure.
"I don't really know if I was depressed before. I don't know what depression really is. I know it's bad times and maybe not wanting to get up in the morning.
"Yes, I think everybody feels that at some stage. But of course everybody has a lower medium and higher scale. Some people deal with that kind of stuff. But you know, everybody probably has gone through it at some stage in their life.
"And I'm very lucky, very happy and very grateful that I have got to the other side of that now.
"And what I'm very passionate about now is putting that message across so that other people can realise and just look at me as a figure to say well he was sad, he didn't want to get up some mornings and face the day ahead of him, but now he's at that other stage."
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