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Boxing Life Stories

Season 2: #24 Michael Sprott

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Former European heavyweight champion Michael Sprott has done almost everything in boxing. There isn't one leading European heavyweight he hasn't fought as a pro or sparred with, from being in training camp with both Klitschko brothers, working relentlessly with David Haye, going to Russia in camp with Alexander Povetkin to fighting the likes of Danny Williams, Matt Skelton and Audley Harrison.
On the way down, he also fought an up and coming Anthony Joshua, but often had to ply his trade abroad. Through his career, he was cast as the opponent or the gatekeeper. He fought contenders and champions with records of 8-0, 6-0, 13-0, 15-0, 9-0, 18-0, 22-0, 14-0 31-1 and you could go on. He fought Ruslan Chagaev, Corrie Sanders, Lamon Brewster, Alexander Dimitrenko, Robert Helenius...
He's also a nice, humble chap but he has an itch to scratch and, aged 45 and with a 42-29 record, he wants one more fight.
This episode also features Tris Dixon's Q and A from Twitter.

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Or to get a third, no, for Danny to take that shot.

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No.

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No. No, it wasn't fair, but I, but now, now, now, I look back at the, back at it now when I asked the fire and people say everyone said you got petition several all the time and I understood that they taught me big lessons.

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It just just there's all madness you know, but it was tough mate.

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He had a head like lead.

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Or punching his ears like flipping heck, you know, it's just mad.

1:00.0

How dispirited were you by that, the fact that the fact that you weren't getting decisions when you should have

1:07.8

Ohh you mentioned it happened in the amateur so it's happened right the way through. Yeah it has it has happened all though through but it's you know you get to the point where

1:15.1

it's enough is enough and I said enough is enough was enough when I thought

1:19.3

uh gerbra when I pushed the, that's me not enough.

1:23.2

I just bomb me up. So, Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Tristixon.

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Delight to say my guests this week is

1:54.0

Reading Heavyweight Michael Sprope. Michael says that he's still got a fight left in

1:59.2

him but he's been around forever and ever. There isn't really any European fighter in the last, probably the last 20 years that Michael hasn't swapped leather with, whether it's been as a professional fighter, as an amateur or as a sparring partner. Michael is a guy I have a

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