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Boxing Life Stories

#37 Adam Harper

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

A change in his brain scan meant former Commonwealth title challenger Adam Harper hung up his gloves. Harper talks here with searing honesty about the concerns over his long-term health, the hardest part of becoming an ex-fighter, the pressure of being a ticket-seller and much more. But it was following a gruelling fight in Australia, in a bout against Michael Zerafa, that he knew the course of his career had changed. Now, with his eye on becoming a leading referee, he addresses the hard topics of pressure, health and retirement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ola, imagine you're in Spain, and you've just poured a refreshing Strya Galicia,

0:05.6

Cervesa. You hear the bubbles in the glass calling out.

0:08.6

In the Penlyown and bro Alithia since 1906.

0:15.0

100% authentic.

0:17.3

But not all Spanish beers are what they seem.

0:19.8

A bit like me.

0:21.1

I'm not Carlos from Acrouna. I'm Charles from Cambridge. Estriagalicia.

0:26.4

Spanish. Not Spanish. This is honestly what it felt like. It felt like we were

0:32.2

cattle being led to slaughter the mini bus was silent

0:35.7

There was no music I had to shout to Angela because we built up a bit of relationship. He was driving us around for the two or three days we were in Melbourne and I shouted

0:44.8

Effin' Al and turning music on it's like a Morgan here.

0:48.1

This is a thing Trist so it would be as bad as this so you get 10% commission on your

0:54.0

tickets everybody knows that in box that's the usual amount 10% so at these days

0:58.3

30 pounds at this time so you're making three pound a ticket at once. I'd finish the training session in Worcester.

1:04.6

I had to drive past Chuxbury to Chautnham back to Chuxbury just to do two tickets.

1:09.8

So that's going to probably cost me five six quid in fuel anyway

1:13.4

you then got a stand there for an hour

1:15.6

having a conversation you don't really want to have

1:17.8

after a day's work

1:19.7

yeah so you've done your run you've done your day's work've done your training, you've had to go and drop two tickets off for six pounds.

1:25.8

You've lost that money in fuel to then have an hour's conversation that you've already had ten times with people about training,

1:32.0

how's it going, you're tired, you're grumpy.

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