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Boxing Life Stories

Season 2: #22 Claude Abrams

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary


For 22 years Claude Abrams worked on the weekly boxing magazine Boxing News, serving more than 10 years as editor. He was hired by his predecessor Harry Mullan and then subsequently hired his successor, Tris Dixon. In between, he covered huge fights, was at the small halls and was exposed to things only a BN editor is exposed to; from rowing with promoters, to going to Azumah Nelson's house, to sparring with Naseem Hamed and taking private jets with Emanuel Steward and then having dinner with Marvin Hagler and Tommy Hearns. He was also ringside for some of the best fighters of all time, including Lennox Lewis, Mike Tyson, Roy Jones, Floyd Mayweather, Evander Holyfield, Erik Morales, Marco Antonio Barrera and many more. When he left BN, he went 'cold turkey' and travelled the world. But he dusted off plenty of war stories for this incredible journey down memory lane.

Transcript

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0:30.0

Nast came in the gym. He was about half an hour late.

0:32.0

He walked in the gym. He was about half an hour late. He walked in the gym and

0:33.6

and Brendan said, you know when you start getting warmed up? So I was warming up, I was

0:36.5

hitting the punch bag. And I was kind of winding that up a little bit. I was

0:39.4

hitting the bags. I was saying, how tall are you, Naz? And Nas was like, I could see on his face, it was like,

0:45.0

you're in my territory now.

0:48.0

You're not going to embarrass me.

0:50.0

Sitting down reading some press cuttings or whatever that had been handed out that day

0:54.9

mani steward walks in and he walked straight over to me he says what you doing I said

0:59.3

I'm just reading this said come with me let's let's go and we got in a limo we drove to an airfield got on this

1:09.1

private jet with another one of his Detroit buddies and we flew to Big Bear.

1:15.0

Two shows. I won, there was one at Wembley where he put us beyond a corner post

1:22.0

and then there was another one Manchester

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