#257 Mark Prince

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Former light heavyweight contender Mark Prince talks about his battles inside and out of the ring. As one of Britain's top fighters in the 1990s, he was involved in several wars on Sky Sports before getting his big chance in Germany against Dariusz Michalczewski. He then had an unlikely comeback, that was inspired by the tragic murder of his son, Kiyan, a budding footballer with Queens Parker Rangers, Mark made is his life's work to make sure his son's name lives on, while trying to make sure that no parent has to suffer the same grief he has.

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0:00.0	The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be
0:06.8	wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain
0:13.0	that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching
0:18.7	their peak in the afternoon.
0:23.0	Not in the mood for miserable weather?
0:25.8	Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.
0:28.7	Sun Express, non-stop sunshine.
0:33.5	And the world title fight came up.
0:37.4	So I've got all of that belief with me on top of my natural belief that I'm going to do it.
0:41.0	So, of course, anything that's not going right, I can easily cover it over with my belief that whatever's going wrong, I can make it right.
0:56.4	It's going to still turn out right.
1:03.8	That's how bad things was for me, but for training and getting back in the ring,
1:06.8	it was like it tidied up my life.
1:11.1	Okay, I may not have nothing, just like I did when I started at 21 But I got purpose
1:13.6	I've got goals, I've got routine
1:16.4	I've got a focus
1:17.7	The shock
1:20.3	Probably went on the longest
1:22.3	You still can't believe
1:26.0	That he's actually not here.
1:28.3	That went on the longest.
1:31.3	That went on for years.
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