Boxing Life Stories

By Tris DixonSports

Boxing Life Stories episodes

January 01, 2020 Season 2: #15 Adam Booth

Coach Adam Booth goes in depth with Tris Dixon on health, happiness and success. They talk about ambition and contentment and there's also some boxing thrown in, as the two discuss Adam's current stable, including Joe Joyce, Michael Conlan and Josh Kelly.
There's also a broader discussion on the use of PEDs in boxing, when to stop a fight and much more besides.
Adam was the first guest on the Boxing Life Stories podcast, and more of his journey can be heard here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1-adam-booth/id1436759230?i=1000420067450

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1 hr 25 min
December 24, 2019 Boxing Life Stories Christmas Special

Host Tris Dixon reflects on some of the inspirational stories he's listened to this year, from Joe Calzaghe mourning the loss of his father Enzo, to Dave Coldwell talking about being bullied, Jamie Moore on being shot and much more.
Micky Ward reflects on his friendship and rivalry with Arturo Gatti, Johnny Nelson remembers his idol, Brendan Ingle, Ian Darke recalls a riot at Madison Square Garden and there's the most famous laugh in boxing.
Also, Teddy Atlas responds to the critics and huge thanks from Tris to Teddy, Ken and Rob at The Fight for sharing audio where they discuss Tris and Teddy on their own podcast.
Tris also speaks to his own inspiration and the girl behind this podcast, his 11-year-old daughter Lois, and there's a Twitter Q and A to finish.

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1 hr 48 min
December 18, 2019 Season 2: #14 Peter McNeeley

Former heavyweight contender Peter McNeeley is best known for being in the opposite corner when Mike Tyson returned to the ring after his 1992 prison sentence. McNeeley, son of respected former heavyweight Tom, lasted 89 seconds, but he went out on his shield.
Here, Tris Dixon catches up with the man who also fought Henry Akinwande, Butterbean and Brian Neilsen in a colourful career that saw him win 47 and lose seven times.
Peter talks openly about CTE, suffering with neurological issues from boxing, how he was inspired by his father, how he still runs in to trouble every once in a while, about Tyson and the others and much more in a no holds barred interview.

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2 hr 5 min
December 11, 2019 Season 2: #13 John Scully

Tris Dixon goes one-on-one with former light-heavyweight contender and now trainer John 'Iceman' Scully in a revealing interview with someone who lives and breathes boxing.
Scully now has a role training 175lbs king Artur Beterbiev and he's worked with Chad Dawson and Matt Remillard, among others. He still also actively spars, aged 52, having retired with 38 wins against 11 losses.
Scully fought the likes of Henry Maske, Tim Littles, Tony Thornton and Michael Nunn, but was arguably best known for his sparring roles with the likes of the brilliant Roy Jones, the great James Toney, Steve Collins and Donnie Lalonde.
University is in session, as Ice is a student of the game, to this day.

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2 hr 8 min
December 04, 2019 Season 2: #12 Russell Peltz

International Boxing Hall of Fame promoter J Russell Peltz has been at the sharp end of boxing for 50 years.
As Philadelphia's foremost boxing promoter in recent years, he's worked with Boogaloo Watts, jimmy Young, Matthew Saad Muhammad, Jeff Chandler, Cyclone Hart, Willie Monroe and his favourite, 'Bad' Bennie Briscoe.
Rich with incredible stories, Peltz has experienced it all and here discusses the sport, his fighters, his life, organised crime and of course the best and worst of his extraordinary half century in the sport.
Recorded in Peltz's Philly office, it's an incredible and ultimately moving journey.

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1 hr 30 min
November 27, 2019 Season 2: #11 Gary Balletto

Gary Balletto was a Rhode Island sweetheart who shot to fame in season two of the popular US television series The Contender. Gary was a good looking guy, an exciting fighter and some tipped him to win the series, which included future world champion Cornelius 'K9' Bundrage and eventual winner Grady Brewer.
It didn't work out that way and Gary was eliminated in the second round, only fighting once more before walking away. Then, several years later he was damaged in a horrific backyard accident playing with his children and left a quadriplegic. Life changed in an instant.
Here, in an incredibly open and moving interview, Gary talks about his career, the accident and its aftermath and the rise of his son, Gary Balletto III, who just made his professional boxing debut.
It's an unmissable conversation.

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1 hr 12 min
November 24, 2019 Season 2: #10 Tony DeMarco
Tony DeMarco won the world welterweight title back in 1955 when he stopped Johnny Saxton. The Boston idol, who headlined more at the Boston Garden than anyone else, fought several world champions, including two violent tussles with Carmen Basillio, Kid Gavilan, Chico Vejar, Denny Moyer, Virgil Akins and Don Jordan.
Now, aged 87 depending on the records you go by, DeMarco was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2019. Here, he talks about his fights, his friendships with the likes of Jake LaMotta and Rocky Marciano and more from his apartment complex in Boston.

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30 min
November 20, 2019 Season 2: #9 Micky Ward

'Irish' Micky Ward has become a boxing cult hero due to the wars he took part in during a ferocious career.
Most celebrated for his part in one of boxing's great trilogies, with the late Arturo Gatti, Ward also became known to the wider public when the film of his life, The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg as Ward and Christian Bale as his brother, Dicky Eklund, had Oscar-winning success.
Ward and interviewer Tris Dixon go back nearly two decades and they discuss Micky's storied career, the epic fights with the likes of Reggie Green, Shea Neary, Emanuel Augustus and Gatti, how he rejuvenated his career and much more.
They also talk about Ward's CTE diagnosis, a neurodegenerative condition he has from fighting, and much more besides as they meet up in Ward's Lowell home.

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1 hr 7 min
November 13, 2019 Season 2: #8 Teddy Atlas

Teddy Atlas was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2019.
He is one of the foremost fight commentators of this generation and one of the boxing's great trainers. He welcomed Boxing Life Stories host Tris Dixon into his Staten Island home to go through his story and his time in the sport.
Starting with an intimate look at his childhood and the moments that carved his character, Atlas remembers his time running wild in New York before moving to Catskill where he was moulded further still by Hall of Fame trainer Cus D'Amato. Atlas gives great insight into those days, recalls the first time he set eyes on a young prospect named Mike Tyson and much more.
Atlas also discusses many of the stars he's trained, including Michael Moorer, Wilfred Benitez, Donnie Lalonde and others but it's after his light-heavyweight champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk recently suffered a hurtful loss to Artur Beterbiev that shows him in a light you may not have seen him in before. It's compelling listening.
Next week: Irish Micky Ward talks about The Fighter, the film of his life, the Gatti trilogy and so much more.
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Teddy's book, Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man is now available as an audiobook with Teddy narrating https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07X4DZDGT/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i0

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1 hr 56 min
November 06, 2019 Season 2: #7 Eddie Mustafa Muhammad

The late 1970s and early 1980s was arguably the hottest period ever in light-heavyweight boxing.
Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, former WBA champion, was one of the major players. He fought star names including Matthew Saad Muhammad, Michael Spinks, Bennie Briscoe, Victor Galindez and many more.
He also had a role in the movie Raging Bull, was given a car as a gift by friend and old training partner Muhammad Ali and as a top trainer has guided the likes of Iran Barkley, Chad Dawson and Herbie Hide. He was also the a centrepiece at the heart of one of boxing's biggest scandals.
Here, he talks about boxing as it is today, his career in a packed division, his regrets and much more.

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1 hr 12 min