#20 Gary Lockett

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

As a trainer, Gary Lockett endured a brutal six-month period. Firstly, his charge Nick Blackwell was left fighting for his life following a hard-fought battle against Chris Eubank Jnr. Then, months later, Lockett was in the 'winning' corner when his boxer, Dale Evans was victorious against Mike Towell, who did not survive his injuries from the fight. It was a horrible spell and firmly tested Lockett's resolve and his passion for the sport, one that was dampened as a fighter in a career that saw him make his name with a violent left hook called 'Lockett's Rocket.' Trained by the likes of Brian Hughes and Enzo Calzaghe, Lockett is a raft of boxing wisdom and talks in colour about boxing politics and his own 12-year career which culminated in a unified middleweight championship to and in-form Kelly Pavlik. But by then, Lockett knew his time had come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Bang, lights out, face on the floor, carpipants on my nose and my lip.
0:35.0	I can remember always used to say as a kid, you know.
0:40.0	If I get dropped, I get under one knee and I'll wait to the ref counts to wait.
0:44.8	I know. It don't work like that. You don't know where you are. You know, I just jumped up.
0:51.1	I jumped up and I thought, where am I?
0:53.4	He said, Gary, are you sat down?
0:57.6	I said, yeah.
0:58.6	And he said, we've made the Pavlik fight. I pulled the phone away from my face I went
1:05.1	fuck that's right so I always tell that story and people say well that's really honest of you.
1:13.2	Listen he was an elite fighter.
1:15.8	Worst night of my life by far.
1:19.9	It'll never leave me.
1:22.2	He'll never ever leave me and it's it's made me
1:26.5	not only that but the day leaven's thing with with with Mike Towell not some well six months after I mean this changed my life
1:35.0	and the way that I will look upon things forever. Welcome to Boxing Life Stories. I'm delighted to be joined in this show by Welsh trainer Gary Lockett.
1:57.8	I've known Gary for a number of years and we've always been cordial and respectful with one another and I've always admired his honesty.
2:04.7	When I thought about starting this podcast he was one of the original 12 guests I had in mind.
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