24: #24 - Brendan Ingle & Dean Francis: A Tribute

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🗓️ 29 May 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week we lost two giants of the sport, Brendan Ingle and Dean Francis. We honour them by talking to some of those in the game who knew them best. The impact they had on the sport will not be forgotten.
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0:00.0	I'm Hello, welcome to pound for pound, the new weekly boxes passed with me Jackwood and
0:27.0	it's the Spencer Oliver.
0:28.6	Now this week we are just doing something a little bit different.
0:31.4	This is like an extra episode.
0:33.0	Spencer, take it away.
0:35.0	Yeah, basically we felt that we had to do this in light of what has happened this
0:41.8	or last week. Brendan Ingle sadly passed away. Brendan was a former trainer of
0:48.3	champions Johnny Nelson, Kelbrook, Nesim Hamid Jr with. with Errol Graham, the listus goes on, Ryan Rhodes.
0:56.1	So we felt that we had to put a tribute out to Brendan Ingle and also on that same day we
1:02.1	lost former fighter Dean Francis who was probably the most talented
1:06.6	fighter never to go on and win a world title.
1:09.0	He was former British Commonwealth and European champion and we felt that we just had to pay tribute to both of these guys
1:16.7	and put this extra episode in so...
1:19.7	You know it was terrible, Dean, he's only 44 years old. I know that he was diagnosed
1:25.0	January of last year with terminal cancer, leaves a wife and a son.
1:30.4	Awful, isn't it?
1:33.0	Life is just brings it into focus,
1:35.0	don't we, before we recorded this and yeah,
1:38.0	just brings it into focus.
1:40.0	Yeah, it's crazy.
1:41.0	I mean if you think Dean France's last boxed in 2014, he was boxing
1:47.3	there I think as a cruiser way. He was a phenomenal talent and like you think he was in
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