#85. World Boxing Champion - Chris Billam Smith
Eventful Lives Podcast
Dodge Woodall
5 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Bournemouth’s own, Chris Billam-Smith, is a boxer the whole country should get behind.
He’s the Commonwealth, British, and European Cruiserweight Champion, and has been under the guidance of Shane and Barry McGuigan since turning professional.
He’s sparred with the likes of David Haye and George Groves, and during the pandemic he even fought at Matchroom’s Fight Camp in my old mate Barry Hearn’s back garden!
In a sport full of in-your-face trash talkers, Chris remains a very calm, thoughtful and articulate athlete, who lets his performances do the talking.
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| 0:00.0 | I spired David Hay three times. |
| 0:07.0 | The first time I spied him was a funny story. |
| 0:10.0 | Like we were putting some Vaseline on my face before the spire. |
| 0:14.0 | David was sparring a lad. |
| 0:16.0 | They nicknamed him Biggie. |
| 0:17.0 | He was at six foot seven, six for eight, 19 stone or something. |
| 0:22.8 | And then I just heard this crash. |
| 0:24.7 | I looked around and he slats just on the floor. |
| 0:27.0 | And David just dropped him basically. |
| 0:29.1 | And on the way down, he snapped both his tibia and his fibula. |
| 0:32.6 | So he snapped his ankle on the way down. |
| 0:34.8 | And I just looked at my amateur coach at the time. |
| 0:36.8 | I was going, guess I'm in then. |
| 0:39.0 | Not ideal when the first time you're going to spa former cruiserweight and heavyweight |
| 0:43.0 | champion of the world. Yeah, he definitely punches, punches hard, David. |
| 0:52.8 | Welcome to the eventful entrepreneur. I'm your host Dodge and I'm the CEO and founder of the Bournemouth Sevens Festival and the revolutionary event crowd, our new online events course. |
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| 1:20.6 | Bournemus-owned Chris Billham-Smith is a boxer the whole country should definitely get behind. |
| 1:25.6 | He's the Commonwealth British and European Cruiserweight champion and has been under the guidance of Shane definitely get behind. He's the Commonwealth British and European |
| 1:27.8 | Cruiserweight champion and has been under the guidance of Shane and Barry McGuigan since he turned |
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