Season 2: #26 Tony Sims

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

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5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Trainer Tony Sims is one of the quiet men in boxing. He's become one of the go-to coaches in British boxing, working with the likes of Anthony Joshua, Darren Barker, Kevin Mitchell, Conor Benn, Ted Cheeseman, Lee Purdy and many more. A former talented amateur, who by his own admission couldn't punch, he talks about working on the fish market, nearly turning pro, working the doors at Stringfellows and the Ministry of Sound and his famous family, well known in other circles for their roles in The Only Way Is Essex. Tony doesn't give many interviews about himself, he prefers to talk about his fighters. But here, rarely, is the Tony Sims story.

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0:30.0	Because when you're 14 years of age, you don't realize that that can actually happen, especially in them days, because don't forget the East End was like a small place.
0:40.0	There was no mobile phones or there was no Instagram or anything like that. So that was the first sort of
0:49.9	of horrors in boxing and I got a thought aim because I thought myself this I didn't know you could
0:55.9	die from this you know what I mean?
0:58.1	It's an hard thing to come to deal with to come to terms with because when someone takes their own life you always
1:06.5	think should I have done this or should I have done that but really there's
1:11.3	nothing you can do.
1:12.6	No, I knew he would get up.
1:16.1	It was something about that training camp and that night
1:19.2	when you just got a feeling this is going to be your night for everything you've been through in your life
1:25.1	this is going to be your night tonight you know what I mean? When you stay in the gym and
1:30.6	do the extra that's when it comes out in the ring you know and that's what I say to the boys
1:35.3	listen no new little extras when people like him stay behind and do the extras that's what
1:40.9	you got to do that's what you got to be like he ain't always for me to tell you to do that Oh, Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Trist Dixon. My guest this week is none other than boxing trainer
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