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Boxing Life Stories

#44 Tunde Ajayi

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Former unbeaten professional welterweight Tunde Ajayi is training Anthony Yarde ahead of his WBO light-heavywieght tittle shot against Sergey Kovalev. The son of a chartered accountant, Ajayi's path in boxing is not a typical one. It has taken him to the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles and the Mayweather Boxing Club in Las Vegas but fighters have come and gone and he has become a divisive figure on social media. Yet he's all about the positivity and positive energy. He has admirable self-belief and is ready to make his mark in the sport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And Andrew was also at an age where he was experimenting with manscaping.

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He got a Braun IPL hair removal device and now he's sharing his silky smooth

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Dad Bod with his friends at the Coldwater plunge.

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while stocks last.

0:30.0

There has to be a balance in life, and that's the way I look at even that word haters it doesn't even make sense to me like but there has to be a balance

0:38.7

It's just haters are people who just don't understand what you're doing and their way of dealing with it

0:44.4

is to say something nasty instead of trying to understand but at the same time

0:50.2

the reason I don't deal with that is because there are the equal amount of

0:53.7

people who do understand who do support you who do want you to do well.

0:57.8

If you want to be the best reggae player you listen to Bob Marley and for me Floyd was the top of

1:05.4

the sport but I always knew he had a teacher so I meticulously watched Roger and Fluid on the pads for two years, I would say for two years, seven days a week.

1:21.0

Within two years I'd mastered their system.

1:26.0

If you look at this whole situation, everything I said from the very start

1:39.8

has come to this point and we're here and on August the 24th we become WBO Light Heavyweight Champions of the world. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

1:55.0

oh, oh, oh, oh,

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oh, oh,

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that you know,

1:58.0

oh, Hello and welcome to Boxing Life stories with me Trist Dixon my guest this week is

2:12.4

Tundi O'J. He's an often under fire trainer. I met with Tundi at the peacock gym in Canning Town where I've seen him and spent a lot of time with him over the last year or so but I've known them for a long time for many many years

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