Season 2: #21 Gavin Rees

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

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5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Former WBA world light-welterweight champion Gavin Rees tells a cautionary tale. Even though he made it to the top of the sport, he did it while partying hard, drinking heavily and not living the life. Had he done what he now preaches as a trainer, things could have been very different. Still, during a career that saw him fight Souleymane Mbaye, Adrien Broner, Derry Mathews, Anthony Crolla and Andreas Kotelnik among many others, he was trained by Enzo Calzaghe and latterly by his friend, Gary Lockett. By the time he started dedicating himself to the sport, the busy-punching Welshman was on the decline. Here, as a trainer, he talks about his regrets, explains why he doesn't dwell on the past and looks ahead to life as one of the top coaches in the UK.

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0:00.0	Andrew was at an age where he was experimenting with cold water therapy.
0:04.4	And Andrew was also at an age where he was experimenting with manscaping.
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0:27.6	hence 27th of November.
0:29.0	While stocks last.
0:30.0	Do look like with others.
0:32.0	I do wish, I think sometimes when which I think sometimes I've never done I what would have happened
0:35.2	but I try not to do it too much. And I know I'm going to be there and I had all the time in the world.
0:41.2	I was all the work rate but my style and when I was a bruiser in my sick body going out
0:45.3	drinking and couldn't go to that pace no more.
0:47.8	And that's why I'm so hard on these boys sometimes.
0:50.8	Because they got to do them for my mistakes and and that's what try to teach people all.
0:54.0	But yeah, I would listen. I would listen to Enzo as well.
0:58.0	But only time I was scared of Enzo. Everyone was scared of Enzo. He was scared of Enzo. He was nuts one and he was shouting another big
1:03.8	brain pop on the side of his head. But you know I mean I do it's I love it you know like so when I
1:09.5	use a box much I probably didn't love it so much I said I probably did this I like a drink too.
1:14.8	And I know I said so but now I love it now. I said don't time to drink so much anymore.
1:20.7	They dedicate to all the boys and up and down the country all my amateurs.
1:24.0	This is why I do every day. Oh, Hello and welcome to this week's boxing live stories with me Trist Dixon.
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