Coaching in one way or another for many years in gyms and schools around New Zealand, Billy finally brought his gym dream to fruition in 2005 by purchasing a property in his hometown of Naenae, a suburb of Lower Hutt in Wellington.
Billy has been a television boxing commentator and was a regular guest on the Good Morning television programme. In 2008 Billy was nominated for the Jeff Gray BMW Personality of the Year category for Sportsperson of the Year and he has received Rotary’s Paul Harris Fellow Award. In 2010 Billy was one of a few people to receive a Wellington region NZ’er of the Year Local Hero award and in 2011 he was awarded the national honour of ‘New Zealander of The Year Local Hero’. This award acknowledges outstanding sacrifice and commitment to community and national pride as a perfect ambassador for New Zealand. His boxing academy has featured on TV1, TV3, TV7 and Prime News.
Billy has vast experience as an international platform speaker around the world for the past 25 years. (www.billygraham.co.nz) Billy has spoken to 15,000 people at the Melbourne Tennis Centre and was a main platform speaker at the Million Dollar Roundtable at Atlanta, Georgia.
He has spoken to Corporates and Sportsmen alike, from Super 14 teams, to Queensland’s State-of-Origin team, and the New Zealand National Cricket team. Billy knows the pains and joys of being at the top and what it takes to get there.
Spell-bound audiences and sporting teams find Billy’s knowledge, energy, and passion very infectious as they are encouraged to achieve their best.
Check out Round 1 of Billy’s Boxing Stories here!
