#27 Jimmy Tibbs

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Jimmy Tibbs is a British boxing icon. A former fighter, he made his name as one of the great trainers, working the corner of notables including Michael Watson, Nigel Benn, Frank Bruno, Lloyd Honeyghan, Mark Kaylor, Charlie Magri and countless others. But his life away from the ring has been equally interesting. After a long prison sentence for settling a gangland family feud, he turned to training, became a born again Christian, battled cancer and he still works in the corner as a cutsman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I was called a gangster that broke my arm to be called a gangster because I've never been a gangster.
0:05.0	All of a sudden one of my family comes driving around, Jim, Jim, I've got your boxing gear in the, you must have been around my house, you've got your boxing gear in the... You must have been around my eyes.
0:13.4	You've got your boxing gear in the... Terry wants to see the White City, your spa room in Miami-Dally.
0:19.4	Well that's what makes a good trainer, what you've just gone from. They're all
0:24.0	different stoles. You got to have the ability to do their stole. And not only do it, not
0:28.9	just talk it, but when they do something wrong you go, hold it, I'll show you that.
0:32.1	Off comes until you show you up,
0:34.1	taking them off, that's what slip, slip, but look, don't slip and do nothing.
0:38.0	Slip, oh, you can either go that way to the body or you can go that way over the top,
0:42.2	whatever way you want to go. Now I had the ability
0:44.2	I'm not being big-headed but I had the ability to take any one style off to make them better.
0:48.3	When was the last time you cried?
1:20.7	Ha ha ha. Hello and welcome to this week's boxing life stories with me Trist Dixon. I should actually as you start listening to this be working in America I should be
1:25.0	be heading to this be working in America. I should be heading to Denver to speak with
1:26.7	Terrence Crawford today having spent a couple of days with Amir Khan in
1:30.8	San Francisco for BT Sports No Filter Boxing. But I'm delighted to say that this
1:37.0	week's guest on the podcast is iconic British boxing trainer Jimmy Tibbs. I've recently caught up with Jimmy at the peacock
1:46.0	gym in Canning Town, which is Jimmy's manner, if were his hometown and we spoke about all manner of things for this pop we spoke about
2:00.5	His time in prison finding God his own boxing career, some of his highs and
2:05.5	lows as a coach, what it takes to be a good coach, and much, much more.
2:10.3	Incidentally one thing we didn't talk about was that Jimmy's actually also survived cancer as well as coming through a lot in his time on this earth.
2:22.0	It was an absolute privilege to spend some time with Jimmy. It was
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