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Boxing Life Stories

#50 Frank Bruno

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

It's episode 50 and it's the UK's favourite fighter, former WBC heavyweight champion Frank Bruno. In one of his most candid interviews in years, Bruno reflects on his life and times, from his rough childhood, starting boxing, being sent to borstal and then fighting his way through the ranks and into huge fights with the likes of Tim Witherspoon, Mike Tyson (twice), Lennox Lewis and Oliver McCall. There were huge knockouts and heartbreaking losses along the way and, of course, his post-boxing career battles that have included him being sectioned three times and a public mental health battle. Here, Bruno covers it all, answers the questions that have surrounded his career and talks about his biggest fight in life after boxing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I was desperate and dangerous and very, very fit, matured and you know what I mean?

0:37.0

I went to the top of the hill, got kicked down and all that come flashing through and

0:40.9

just went in there is either him on me and thank God it was me.

0:45.0

I had a detachable in my eye and I shouldn't have been in the ring and I was very, very scared.

0:52.0

I should have gone into aspiring camp.

0:54.0

Shouldn't have had four aspiring partners.

0:56.0

Shouldn't have gone into the ring at all.

0:58.0

But I was very, very nervous to that fight because I couldn't sleep properly. The lowest point of it for me is when my dad died when I was 14,

1:08.0

that was a start of it, you know what I mean?

1:10.0

And then my brother died, about three years ago my mom died Harry died my trainer

1:16.8

Broke my heart broke you know what I mean broke me down when he committed suicide he lost his beautiful wife Joan he lost his son Simon

1:25.6

and my close friend George he just he went so I couldn't really believe it

1:29.8

he knocked me for six. I'm not more better than what I don't know if you wanted me to meet me and me to come in with

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