#46 Kevin Mitchell

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Many regard Kevin Mitchell as one of the best British fighters to never win a world title. In his storied career, he fought the likes of Jorge Linares, Breidis Prescott, Michael Katsidis, John Murray and Ricky Burns. Mitchell was known as a hard fighter and a hard liver. He was a boxer who sold tickets in pubs, and drank in the pubs where he sold tickets. His story is in part about missed opportunities, a fight with alcohol and inner demons and a failure to get the best out of himself, something he openly admits to. But he was still a terrific fighter. He shared British Fights of the Year with Carl Johanneson and John Murray, turned pro after a decorated amateur career culminating in an ABA title and retired after one last title run which came in arguably the performance of his career, against the wonderful Linares. Now, in the wake of the passing of his brother Vinny, he's a trainer of young fighters, and he's not only hoping to pass his skills down, he's hoping to share the harsh lessons he's learned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.9	I was like one last of the old school to live lived life in the pubs, sold tickets in pubs
0:34.0	and that's how I lived my life in the pubs selling tickets in the party scene and that's the way I did it
0:39.5	but I won't have my fires do it like that.
0:40.9	I was a war-class professional fighter. I wasn't an elite
0:45.3	world-class professional fire, but I could have won a royal-tile. But like, I wouldn't sell
0:50.8	it's the elite level, Joe. You've got to know your band was inboxing. I was a more
0:53.7	the elite level, Joe. I mean you got to know your band was inboxing. I was a more class fight, but not the elite.
0:54.8	I was too scared to go to sleep that night before the, after the fight.
1:00.1	I got home that was on late early hours.
1:01.8	We got home, my girlfriend, man at the time, she went to bed with my boy Connor,
1:06.4	and I was sitting there watching only for his horses and all that.
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1:12.3	I was there watching that laughing and I'm like,
1:14.0	but if you're getting my jaw was busted so I was worried that I wouldn't go sleep
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