Galal Yafai: Olympic Gold, Bam Rodriguez, Kenshiro Teraji, And Can He Make It As A Major Star?

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Galal Yafai, the WBC interim champion at flyweight, gives an honest and forthright interview, talking about his title, his progress since winning gold at the Tokyo Olympics, and possible future fights with the likes of Bam Rodriguez and Kenshiro Teraji. Yafai also tells Tris Dixon about his hopes and dreams while he worked in a Land Rover factory, rolling the dice for two Olympic cycles, his fight with Sunny Edwards and the danger posed by Francisco Rodriguez. Follow me on Instagram, X and TikTok. This collection of interviews is available on… YouTube iTunes Spotify And all good podcast platforms. Tris Dixon covered his first amateur boxing fight in 1996. The former editor of Boxing News, he has written for a number of international publications and newspapers, including GQ and Men’s Health. He has been a broadcaster for TNT Sports and hosts the popular “Boxing Life Stories” podcast. Dixon is a British Boxing Hall of Famer, an International Boxing Hall of Fame elector, and the author of five boxing books, including “Damage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing” (shortlisted for the William Hill Sportsbook of the Year), “Warrior: A Champion’s Search for His Identity” (shortlisted for the Sunday Times International Sportsbook of the Year) and “The Road to Nowhere: A Journey Through Boxing’s Wastelands.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.2	Hello, welcome back to boxing conversations.
0:34.8	I hope you're enjoying this new look, new feel, new vibe to the podcast. I know
0:40.7	they're coming thick and fast at the moment and next week, or at least there's no sign of them
0:45.2	letting up at all. In the sense that I know next week, for instance, I have about 40 minutes
0:51.8	that Deonté Wilder come in your way and he's done some good interviews,
0:55.7	really interesting stuff the last couple of weeks, but I don't think I've seen anything
1:00.7	quite like what I've got coming your way. Today, guys, the podcast is with Galauia Fy, the WBC
1:09.2	interim flyweight champion. And I've always got on really
1:13.8	well with the Yafai brothers. They always seem to have had a lot of time for me and I certainly have a
1:19.3	lot of time for them. And you'll see why in this conversation with Galahou, there aren't many more
1:24.9	sort of open, interesting and I don't know, just transparent people out
1:31.0	there than those guys. They're just pure good guys. And one of the reasons why I would have
1:37.0	done this podcast in the first place is get to speak to people like them. So there is Galau
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