Season 2: #16 Dicky Eklund
Boxing Life Stories
Tris Dixon
5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
There is more than one Dicky Eklund. There was the promising pro who was matched early against a developing Sugar Ray Leonard and then the strung out junkie portrayed by Christian Bale in an Oscar-winning performance in the film The Fighter. Dicky has had a hard life; in and out of prison, on and off drugs, in and out of boxing. The half brother and trainer of 'Irish' Micky Ward, he now looks back on a life of regrets and missed opportunities while recalling happily Micky's glory years in a candid and hard-hitting interview.
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| 0:00.0 | Phillips presents one blade crown jewels as a prince it's important my moustache |
| 0:06.8 | and my crown jewels are how you say free from fluff for For this I need a blade much safer than a guillotine. |
| 0:16.0 | Are you pretend to be French royalty again? |
| 0:20.0 | No, no. |
| 0:21.0 | No. |
| 0:22.0 | Trim, edge and shave with confidence. |
| 0:24.0 | Even down there. |
| 0:25.0 | Search One Blade 360. |
| 0:27.0 | Innovation and You. |
| 0:28.0 | Phillips |
| 0:30.0 | Right, when you start getting good and they say, come on, we'll give you this, we'll give you come on we'll give you this we'll give you drugs for nothing everything |
| 0:36.1 | It says don't do it. Everything they're offering is gonna take you down |
| 0:41.8 | Just like it took me down. |
| 0:43.0 | Then all of a sudden that someone, |
| 0:47.0 | the aging gang, TIG, they kind of forget, |
| 0:52.0 | a shotgun, it was a musket gun hasn't been shot in like a |
| 0:55.2 | hundred years and the paper they made me look like Al Capone you know take |
| 1:00.6 | that we had a shotgun over this guy and I'll bullshit by, you know. |
| 1:07.0 | I said, no, I ruined my life I ruined my life I don't think I can say to other fighters you know and you can't you don't do what I did I did it for you |
| 1:24.0 | it doesn't work that way. I thought I missed drugs when I used to not have that. |
| 1:30.0 | I miss boxing more than anything in the world besides like I said my kids and my granddaughter. |
| 1:37.0 | You know? So, Hello, welcome to this week's boxing live stories with me Trist Dixon my |
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