#48 Don Charles

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Don Charles is perhaps most famous for his work with heavyweight enigma Derek Chisora. Yet the story of the African-born Charles is fascinating. Yes, he takes us on the wild Chisora ride but he also talks about escaping war-torn Biafra after the Nigerians won a three-year war, he talks about his upbringing in 1970s London, his businesses (running florists, working as a clothing seller in the markets and running a door security firm) and then his break into boxing. As an amateur super-heavyweight, he sparred the likes of Danny Williams and Henry Akinwande, impressed James 'Bonecrusher' Smith but, disenfranchised after a loss to Harry Senior – whom he'd already beaten – he never fought again. Although there was that press conference brawl with David Haye in Munich... As a coach, he's trained Frank Buglioni, Chisora, Ajose Olusegun, Ashley Theophane and he now works with, among others, his son George Fox, an up and coming heavyweight. From running for his life in the African forests to having his own heavyweight gym in north west London, it's been an emotional roller coaster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	We were running from village to village during the war. We, six months prior to the war ending,
0:36.6	we ended up in the forest. We slept in the forest, lived in the forest, school in the forest.
0:41.6	Everything was done. We didn't dare live in the forest. Eight from the forest?
0:43.0	Everything would don't dare live in a house because you get bombed.
0:47.0	So I've got wounds on my forehead that I sustained from the war.
0:51.0	Plains issues just come firing indiscriminately.
0:53.7	Yeah, it took me a long time to actually realize.
0:58.0	I'm a godfearing my purpose on this planet.
1:00.9	Because I should have died a long time ago. I should have. I shouldn't be here.
1:05.8	Again you're opening a lot good questions of tricks. No one's really gone this deep with the whole thing. He had his career and I've never been
1:12.4	interviewed about anything like that
1:14.1	because I'm not I don't matter I'm the outside guy but it's cool. This is this is not a joke if
1:21.4	you watch my face it's not a joke if you watch my face. It's not a joke. Yeah? If that man gloves up now I'm 58
1:26.5	What's David is in this is he 40 yet? He's got is around 40 is there? Yeah put me in the ring with gloves on, he cannot beat me in a fight.
1:35.6	If you put him outside the ropes, he cannot beat me in a fight.
1:39.2	I was not fighting him.
1:41.0	He struck Derek, surprisingly, yeah? I stepped over Derek's stumbling
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