#29 Yaqui Lopez

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

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🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Stockton light-heavyweight legend Yaqui Lopez was one of the best fighters never to win a world title, despite multiple attempts. He was a danger man in one of boxing's great divisions, when there were almost 20 world-class 175-pounders, including several of his opponents, Michael Spinks, Matthew Saad Muhammad, John Conteh, James Scott and Victor Galindez. Yaqui – who was a blood and guts warrior – is a kind, warm man. He had a role in the famous boxing movie, Fat City, and now runs the Fat City Boxing Club, not far from his home. Tris Dixon recently visited him at home, and went on a tour of the gym, for this interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	He knows, you know, that he was in a tough fight, you know, with me and he told me,
0:09.0	Jackie, if I win the championship, I'll give you a remit. I'm going to give you the remands.
0:17.0	He was on something because I know myself, you know, I hear him in the body, you know, good, you know, like,
0:27.0	man, he is, I just see his eyes, I mean, red, you know, like, oh my God.
0:35.0	Inboxing, have you heard?
0:38.0	You know tell the coach, I'm here,
0:42.0	will you please get somebody out like in baseball, football, basketball?
0:48.0	No substitutions? No substitution for boxer.
0:52.0	Hey. for boxing. If you want to quit, you want to be a man, you want to be recognized by
1:00.3	boxing people by the world we find out a lot of people you know yeah
1:10.0	they not do it you know they hurt or they take a punch and go down and they stay there and they see it.
1:17.0	And my father-in-law say, oh, we fight anybody.
1:24.6	And I say, we, did you help?
1:27.0	Yeah.
1:29.2	I say, wait a minute, did you help me?
1:31.0	Oh, no, but you know, I love it, you know.
1:35.0	I want to know the answer myself.
1:40.0	You want to know the answer, yeah.
1:42.0	You know, know the answer. I work hard, I try my best.
1:47.0	I'm not a bit people, I'm not a bad guy I don't know. Hello and welcome to this week's boxing life stories. I'm delighted to say I'm joined
2:14.7	by 1970s light heavyweight legend and contender Jackie Lopez. I first met
2:22.2	Jackie about 15 years ago when I was traveling around the US for what
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