Season 2: #15 Adam Booth

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Coach Adam Booth goes in depth with Tris Dixon on health, happiness and success. They talk about ambition and contentment and there's also some boxing thrown in, as the two discuss Adam's current stable, including Joe Joyce, Michael Conlan and Josh Kelly. There's also a broader discussion on the use of PEDs in boxing, when to stop a fight and much more besides. Adam was the first guest on the Boxing Life Stories podcast, and more of his journey can be heard here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1-adam-booth/id1436759230?i=1000420067450

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0:00.0	Ola, imagine you're in Spain, and you've just poured a refreshing Strya Galicia,
0:05.6	Cervaisa. You hear the bubbles in the glass calling out.
0:08.6	In the Penly on unbro Alithia since 1906, 100% authentic. But not all Spanish beers are what
0:18.8	they seem, a bit like me. I'm not Carlos from Acrouna. I'm Charles from Cambridge. Estreia Galicia.
0:27.0	Spanish. Not Spanish.
0:30.0	If what makes me happy is analyzing and trying to understand deeper and deeper the sport of boxing
0:36.3	so that I can impart that understanding to young fighters who have got the ability to
0:46.6	to process it and improve in what they do and what they desire, if that makes me happy, then that's what I'm going to do. If a dope cheat violates another man and gets a victory under cheating circumstances,
1:00.0	not playing by the rules, by breaking the the rules but he keeps that win and gets a bit of a slap on the risk but another opportunity
1:08.0	and the Commission keeps the money and the promoter keeps giving him contracts and keeps paying him and the broadcasters that
1:14.2	appoint the promoter keep paying the promoter to pay the dope cheat and the people
1:18.3	watching TV keep subscribing to the TV channel that pays the promoter that pays the
1:21.8	promoter to pays the dope gee no one
1:22.7	fucking cares I'm I'm not just a boxing coach I don't want I don't want to
1:29.9	define my own existence by the things I choose to do. I'd rather just live my existence
1:38.7	and experience things and try and slow time down because it's not promised to anyone and just
1:47.0	live with as much health, happiness and security as I can. Oh, Hello, Welcome to Boxing Life Stories. Welcome to 2020 and it's a return to the
2:20.7	first Boxing Life Story's guest I interviewed and it's coach Adam Booth.
2:27.0	Adam and I go back some way. If you haven't listened to the first podcast I did with Adam by all means,
2:36.5	flip it back and go back to episode one of boxing life stories. That was really well received where he talked a lot about George
2:45.9	Groves, about David Hay, about his stable at the time. This podcast is
2:51.9	really interesting. I was fascinated by Adam as always.
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