Season 2: #1 Bruce Trampler

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2019

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

To kick-off season two, Tris Dixon is in Las Vegas where he spent time with veteran Top Rank matchmaker Bruce Trampler. For some 40 years, Trampler has been one of Bob Arum's right-hand men, working with the likes of Muhammad Ali, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather, George Foreman and Oscar De La Hoya. Bruce is one of the most popular guys in the sport, though he doesn't receive much of the spotlight for his work because he would prefer it to be shone on the fighters. But here, in a rare in depth interview, he talks about his start in boxing, his mentors, the long relationships he's had in the sport, what it's like working with Arum, how he got behind Foreman's incredible comeback, what happened between Arum and rival Don King at Dan Goossen's funeral and much more besides. This episode is brought to you in association with Hanson Lee Resourcing and Delco Safety Compliance.

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0:30.0	So now I'm out at the end of the gate and here comes off the plane here comes Mohammed
0:37.0	that way and I'm starstruck of course and people were getting autographs and I was and I waited till they were done and he's looking around and he knows somebody's going to pick him up and I said Mohammed I'm Bruce Trampler, Angelo sent me and he kind of recoils. He stands back and he goes, did you just call me the N word?
1:02.0	Yeah, I was very scared.
1:05.0	I really, I mean, I've been present, I'm not proud of this,
1:12.0	I've been present at 13 ringed us and I thought man he was
1:16.1	going to be one of them. We would go down to LA and have meetings you know
1:21.3	before each fight.
1:24.2	And Aaron would make a presentation,
1:29.2	what this fight meant, and then, all right,
1:31.7	now Bruce is going to talk to you about opponents and I would say well
1:35.3	this guy's a runner this guy's a lefty this guy's a hard puncher we'd go over four or five guys and an Oscar's father might weigh in his
1:46.7	trainer which is Roberto Al-Kazar would give his opinion.
1:52.6	And finally, we'd get to Oscar, right?
1:55.5	And Oscar would sit there playing with a pencil,
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