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Boxing Life Stories

#19 Steve Collins

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Irish hero Steve Collins was part of that brilliant era that inspired a generation of boxers and fight fans. The Celtic Warriror cut his teeth in the hard gyms of America, where he boxed under the Petronelli brothers and, later, Freddie Roach, and he challenged two of the best of his era in Mike McCallum and Reggie Johnson for world honours. But it was his fights with domestic rivals Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn that catapulted him to fame and fortune. The brilliant Irishman with the iron will and the granite chin nearly fought Roy Jones and there were rumours of talks with Joe Calzaghe, but his legacy as one of the toughest men to ever do it was already secure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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He was absolutely great and the best thing that happened to us he put food on our tables

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he brought attention to TV he was a promoter's dream he was the golden goose and he wanted to keep him alive forever.

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Nij is a devastating puncher and that's, if Nijer

0:20.0

Nijer Ben hits you, you go.

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Nijer Ben hits you and you don't go,'s got a problem and I just happened to have a

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gift that I could absorb good shot.

0:28.3

You hit cars like you hit car he's not going to go anywhere.

0:34.0

He wants to fight a guy like that.

0:36.0

You can land the best shot in car fresh and he'll walk through it.

0:39.0

I wouldn't fight a guy like that.

0:41.0

I sat here waiting for you and I was in two months to leave because I like being out of the land like

0:50.7

I farm I walk hard I have a lot of things going on that I don't like people to know about,

0:54.4

you know, and I'm very happy with life, but walk hard and there's a lot of good life. Hello and welcome to Boxing Live stories. Before I introduce you to my

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guests this week I just wanted to say I appreciate the messages I get following

1:19.9

each podcast going live. Doing this podcast is challenging and rewarding in

1:24.1

equal measures, but fingers cross we can stick with it. We'll see, but it's really

1:27.8

helpful when you guys share the link with your followers on social media and

1:30.9

it's always much appreciated. On to this

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this week. They say you should never meet your heroes.

1:35.5

Well, unfortunate to have met a few of mine and one in particular

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encapsulated everything I wanted to be as a kid.

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Steve Collins was incredibly tough, a hard man with a granite chin and an even stronger will.

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