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Boxing Life Stories

#39 Ian Darke

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

For more than 30 years Ian Darke was the voice of boxing. Alongside Jim Watt and Glenn McCrory, Darke covered all the big names from Tyson, Bruno and Lewis to Hamed, Hagler and Barrera. In this wide-ranging interview, Darke talks about his break into the sport – which was covering the Ali-Holmes heavyweight fight – his biggest nights ringside, some of his fondest memories and the bedlam of the nights when boxing got it wrong. Funny, articulate and a brilliant raconteur, Darke relives more than three decades of fights from behind the microphone, either at ringside or interviewing boxing's legendary names. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So I walked past the sports desk one day and the editor's sitting there and he said,

0:35.2

Oh, Darkie, he said, Las Vegas next week, Muhammad Ali. I said what?

0:41.1

I was commentating there from underneath the ring almost with a little monitor looking at what was all the stuff that was going on because that was the only safe place people were breaking chairs over people's heads behind us.

0:53.6

Having a heart attack.

0:55.0

Yeah, that's Frank Maloney was doing the commentary.

0:57.0

He goes, I think Lou Duva's dead.

0:59.0

I said, Frank, I said, I think we need to just keep calm here I said he's certainly been hit there by somebody but

1:08.4

He killed him on the air he murdered him on the TV

1:11.8

He was I I mean, we can laugh at it now, but at the time, it was absolute mayhem.

1:19.0

That's why it's a great sport, you know, really that it can reduce moments at that high octane level that probably supersede just about every other sport.

1:32.0

It can be, I think it can be the worst sport and the best sport, all in one.

1:38.6

So the burning question, like all great heavyweights in their profession, Do you have one fight left in you?

1:44.0

Well, probably not.

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