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Eventful Lives Podcast

#44b. Infamous Sports Agent & Frank Warren Shooting - Ambrose Mendy

Eventful Lives Podcast

Dodge Woodall

Eventful, True Crime, Risk, Interviews, Crime, Events, Entrepreneurship, Festivals, Sports, Life Story, Entrepreneur, Roger Woodall, Start Ups, Society & Culture, Military, Business

5857 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

PART 2 - EXCLUSIVE - I took Paul Ince's medical to get him to Man Utd. The unsolved shooting of Frank Warren. He also shares stories about Michael Jackson, George Michael, and hiring a tent to host one of the biggest fights in British boxing history. 


In part 1, we chatted about racism in sport, prison riots, and his experiences of discrimination as a black man in 70s & 80s London. 


We join the chat just as Ambrose is leaving prison and emerging as a big name in sports management.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eventful Entrepreneur.

0:05.0

My name's Dodge. I've been an entrepreneur for over 30 years

0:09.0

and thrown thousands of parties across the UK

0:12.0

and I'm also the owner of the Bournemouth Sevens Festival.

0:15.0

Everyone who knows me knows I love people, having a laugh and asking lots of questions. So I've been chatting to people

0:23.2

with one thing in common. They've all lived eventful lives. In this second part of a two-part

0:29.8

podcast, I'm delving deeper into the eventful life of Ambrose Mendi. In part one, we chatted

0:35.8

about racism and sport, his involvement in the prison riots,

0:39.0

and his experiences of discrimination as a black man in the 70s and 80s London. If you haven't

0:43.5

heard it yet, please make sure you go back and give it a listen. In this part, we talk about the

0:48.0

world of boxing, Nigel Ben, the unsolved shooting of Frank Warren, the promoter, and the time

0:53.7

Ambrose took Paul Lynch's Medical at Man United and passed.

0:57.1

He also shares stories about Michael Jackson, George Michael,

1:00.4

and hiring a tent to host one of the biggest fights in British boxing history.

1:04.5

We joined the chat just as Ambrose is leaving prison

1:06.7

and emerging as a big name in sports management.

1:09.6

Here he is again, Mr. Ambrose Mender.

1:13.4

So this move on there, you've been in there for four years in the prison, you've learned

1:17.3

a hell of a lot.

1:18.6

When you've come out, you've now become one of the biggest sports agents in the country.

1:23.9

Tell us what angle you saw to become a sports agent.

1:26.7

Because I'd imagine back then there wasn't very many sports agents.

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