Becoming Blair 'the Flair': a boxer on the run, part 2

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In the ring, Blair finds calm amidst the chaos of his life. Back in the US Blair Cobbs falls again on hard times; homeless in Philadelphia his boxing dream seems out of reach. But a string of lucky breaks may just tip the balance. Blair’s brazen alter-ego who’s kept him alive thus far now has a name – Blair ‘the Flair’ – and some recognition in the ring. But could ‘the Flair’ take him all the way to the top of the boxing world?

Presenter: Asya Fouks Producer: Louise Morris

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories
0:24.4	of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex Fontunzelman.
0:27.3	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.7	When you meet someone online,
0:33.7	can you trust they are who they say they are?
0:36.4	I keep thinking so much about you.
0:38.8	She's so stunning.
0:40.0	It's all well planned.
0:42.4	Love Janessa is the True Crime podcast from the BBC World Service and CBC podcasts, exploring the world of online romance scams.
0:51.5	And it's available now.
0:52.9	Find it wherever you found this podcast every fight seems to be
0:57.8	like that one final time it feels like that in the dressing room preparing for the fight i'm calling
1:04.8	upon every great warrior of my past mahomed ali sugar ray lennard all these. I go out there the biggest fight in my life,
1:13.3	and I do the bladder flare. Woo! I do the woo. And I'm supposed to lose. Blair Cobbs had
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