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Boxing Life Stories

#5 Shawn Porter

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

It's 'Showtime'. WBC welterweight champion Shawn Porter takes listeners through his life in boxing, from his Olympic heartbreak to shutting Adrien Broner's mouth and wearing championship gold. Here is Porter, one of the best interviews in boxing today, unplugged.

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There's definitely pressures on fighters to keep the o. Every fighter out there believes that you can't make money if you don't have an o.

0:07.0

Even now, that fight was in 2015, and even now people still come up to me and say, they literally say,

0:18.4

thank you for beating Adrian Bronner.

0:20.8

The fighters aren't what appeals to me.

0:26.4

The fans are what appeals to me in the UK. K. Hello, welcome to Boxing Life Stories. I'm Trist Dixon and I'm joined this week by the

0:48.8

reigning WBC World to Weight Champion of the world Sean Showtime Porter.

0:55.6

I caught up with Sean in Kiev in the Ukraine at the WBC Convention.

0:59.7

Great guests to have on, great backstory, lots to say for himself about the current scene in boxing and the current

1:06.8

world weight division in particular. You don't want to miss what he has to say.

1:10.8

Quick shout out to Ellie Seck, who I interviewed for this podcast for a future episode out there.

1:17.0

Unfortunately, it didn't record, but Elee, who's the YouTube God of Boxing, was an awesome guest and we have to do that again down the line, but I really appreciate it as time.

1:27.0

If you can rate this podcast on iTunes Podomatic or Spotify, that would be great.

1:32.0

Even better if you can leave a

1:34.3

positive review you can get hold of me on Instagram and Twitter at Tristixon

1:39.7

for now though here is Showtime, Sean Porter.

1:43.4

So you were 276 wins, 14 losses as an amateur?

1:48.8

Just about that, yeah.

1:50.4

A lot here, there give a take.

1:52.4

It was some of those losses should you have got the decision in some of those? Yeah, I lost hair, there give a take.

1:52.8

Some of those losses, should you have got the decision in some of those?

1:56.0

Yeah, that's a part of boxing, you know how it goes.

1:59.0

I've never been one to complain.

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