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Boxing Life Stories

#3 Paul Williams

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Paul 'The Punisher' Williams fought the likes of Antonio Margarito, Sergio Martinez and Winky Wright during a stellar career. A freakishly-tall welterweight, who would move up to middleweight, he could not land big fights with Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather, earning him the title of boxing's most-avoided man. Then, in 2012, his career was curtailed by a motorbike crash that has left him in a wheelchair. APOLOGIES FOR THE AUDIO

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I never too to put my all horn and said I was the most big fighter

0:06.3

a nun that stuff.

0:08.3

I could have start a week right if I wanted to.

0:14.0

He had to come to me.

0:18.0

That's when I saw him I was in my wheelchair.

0:20.0

I was a plane hiding him in my wheelchair. Hello and welcome to this episode of Boxings live stories with me your host Trist Dixon.

0:40.4

Paul Williams is 37 years old. The Aikkin South Carolina man was involved in a

0:45.8

motorcycle crash in 2012 that left him paralyzed and wheelchair bound. He was 31 and

0:51.8

had a fiance and three children.

0:54.0

Williams was known as the most avoided man in boxing.

0:57.0

A six foot one inch south poor who boxed from weltsweight through to middleweight,

1:00.0

he beat Antonio Margarito in an action fight but could not land

1:04.2

Manny Paco, Floyd Mayweather or any of the other A-Listers of 147 pounds.

1:09.4

So he moved up and at middleweight he widely defeated Winky right and then beat

1:14.3

Sergio Martinez on a tight majority decision. The rematch saw Williams not cold

1:19.6

with one of the great one-punch finishes of all time, but he wanted to see what he had left and fought

1:24.7

Cuban dangerman Erislande Lara. He went to ward to test his whiskers and won a decision.

1:31.0

There was one more fight, and then it seemed as though he was going to be the first acid

1:34.9

test in the career of Sal Canello Alvarez.

1:38.1

Then on the way to his brother's wedding, he was involved in a motorbike crash that changed the trajectory of his life.

1:44.7

A quick caveat with this one gang, the recording is not great, combined with his southern

1:48.7

draw all the audio struggles.

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