19: #19 - Spencer Oliver: Surprise Special

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4.6 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

It’s 20 years since that night at the Royal Albert Hall when Spencer suffered a life threatening and career ending injury. It was a truly devastating moment but 20 years later he is stronger than ever. We surprise Spencer as we talk to people who were close to him and/or at the event including Spencer’s long time manager Jess Harding, Adam Smith, David Coldwell, Johnny Nelson, Darren Barker, Kevin Mitchell, Kevin Garside and Spencer’s wife Nicola.
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0:00.0	I'm Hello, welcome to pound for pound the new weekly boxing
0:26.1	podcast with me jay word and here
0:28.4	mrs spence oliver
0:29.4	how you doing buddy all good may all good we've had a good week we've had a good week. We've had a brilliant week.
0:34.0	It's been fun. First of all we went to the BT Sport Industry Awards.
0:40.0	Yeah, I was really surprised to get the invite, if I'm honest. Well we didn't know what it was really surprised to get the invite if I'm honest.
0:43.4	Well, we didn't know what it was.
0:44.4	And that was clearly evident.
0:46.7	Right, I got to tell you, I'm going to tell you, so we go to the V2 Sports Awards.
0:50.9	Now we're really honored to be invited yeah but I had never heard of
0:55.2	the BT Sport Industry Awards. Oh it's a big thing mate is it massive well
1:00.2	only after we got invited we had a look on the, they got a Twitter account and all that and there's a little video, isn't there, of last year.
1:08.0	Everyone was there, Joshua, Prince Harry, Prince Harry.
1:12.8	Big deal, it was massive, isn't it?
1:14.9	So we get the invite.
1:16.9	Alex got the invite.
1:18.9	Oh, it came through our agent, didn't it?
1:20.8	No, we got a pro, we got got invited to represent this podcast. Of course we're really pleased about it.
1:27.0	It just shows where we've reached in such a short space of time.
1:31.1	Yeah, I was honored really because like you I say it's only been going a few
1:33.8	months and bang with we get invited there so we leave what we thought was plenty of time
1:39.2	to get there we left about quarter to six I think didn't we? Yeah about
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