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Boxing Life Stories

#42 Richard Towers Part One

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Sheffield heavyweight Richard Towers sparred some of the best of his era, the likes of Wladimir Klitschko, David Haye, Tyson Fury, Alexander Povetkin and Deontay Wilder. In amassing a 15-1 (12) record before retiring in 2014, he learned from the likes of Brendan Ingle, Emanuel Steward and Adam Booth. But before boxing, he was part of a criminal underworld that saw him serve the best part of a decade in prison, rubbing shoulders with some of Britain's most dangerous and infamous criminals. Here, in a part-boxing/part-true crime interview, Towers reflects on both lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The rest was history I got carried away and I think I stabbed four of them like 30 times each

0:48.3

obviously I got I got carried away you know and I only said that not through bragging but I said that because it was quite a vicious

0:58.8

vicious stabbing a few a few fellas jumped out of the bushes with samurai swords and stuff like the crow bars.

1:06.8

The fellas were the crow bars and the bats.

1:09.1

They were smashing me in my face and smashing me all over my back and my arms and stuff like that.

1:15.0

So that in turn didn't let the people with the more dangerous weapons like swords and knives get to me.

1:22.0

Come to think of it I'm quite

1:24.0

lucky I don't think I don't like to give credit to to boxing per se I give

1:31.3

credit to Brendan and the people definitely

1:36.1

Everybody's obviously looked at me quite a daunting experience and Brendan walked over to me

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Stood a few inches away from my face and went

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fucking ugly bastard for anybody to think that they can do what I did and

1:50.2

walk into a champion's back door and get in the ring and hold some form of competence.

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