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Boxing Life Stories

#49 Colin Hart

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

For more than 50 years, The Sun's boxing scribe Colin Hart has been at the biggest fights, delivered the biggest interviews and broken the biggest exclusives. Here, he looks back on a half century in the sport that has seen him earn the top awards in boxing journalism, the Nat Fleischer award via the Boxing Association of America and his induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He was at the Fight of the Century between Frazier and Ali, in Zaire for the Rumble in the Jungle and in Manilla for the Thriller. He was a the Bite Fight, the Fan Man, the biggest upset in boxing history – Douglas-Tyson – and he witnessed the likes of Hagler, Duran, Leonard, Hearns, Chavez and many more in their primes. Hart reflects on an incredible journey, the fighters he has met and the good, the bad and the ugly of the fight game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ola, imagine you're in Spain, and you've just poured a refreshing Strya Galicia,

0:05.6

Cervaisa. You hear the bubbles in the glass calling out.

0:08.6

In the Penly on unbro Alithia since 1906, 100% authentic. But not all Spanish beers are what

0:18.8

they seem, a bit like me. I'm not Carlos from Acrouna. I'm Charles from Cambridge. Estreia Galicia.

0:27.4

Spanish. Not Spanish. The whole arena stood and applauded and I couldn't say what the hell they applauded.

0:37.6

It wasn't an applause. It was so raw and I stood up to see what was going on and it was Joe Lewis and had entered the arena and was walking to his ringside seat.

0:51.0

Talk about the hairs coming up on the back of your head.

0:54.0

So I said this weird American with his hair sticking up on end.

1:00.0

He, he, he, he, and he called a press conference the day before the fight to announce that foreman was going to defend

1:09.7

this title against Mohammed Ali in Zaire on September, well of in Kinshasa, and the fight

1:18.9

would start at 4 a.m. local time to tie in with American television.

1:26.1

And we looked at each other and I nearly fell off my chair laughing,

1:29.6

I thought, who is this clown?

1:32.1

I've ever heard such rubbish in all my life.

1:35.0

Sure enough, six months later, we were sitting 4 a.m. at the ring sign in Kinchearsa Wayne for his fight to start.

1:43.2

You know what I thought was watching it?

1:46.7

Oh my goodness he's committing suicide.

1:50.3

His then wife,

1:52.6

wife, Bertha, mother of his five children, was standing outside Hagler's

1:57.2

stressful waiting to be let in and one of those charming minter fans shouted at her

2:02.2

I hope your husband gets cancer which we reported don't worry about it we reported all this So, Hello and

2:35.0

I'm welcome to Boxing Life stories with me Trist Dixon. We're at episode 49 and it's a man with more than 50 years in the game.

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