Season 2: #27 Colin McMillan

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

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5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Former WBO featherweight champion Colin McMillan could be forgiven for being sour. Just when he had the world at his feet, as the reigning champion, he lost his crown in his first defence when he suffered a dislocated shoulder. Things changed from that moment. But McMillan has retained his highly positive disposition and is one of boxing's good guys. He had a fascinating career, trying to forge his own path, working with the late author Jonathan Rendall as an advisor, being guided by Terry Marsh and then, afterwards, becoming an advisor to Audley Harrison. In his own fighting career, there were big nights against big names when he was being touted as the next big thing and then came the disappointment of the injury that curtailed his charge. There were battles with the powers that be, battles with himself and battles with his shoulder. This is an incredible story.

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0:20.3	Going into the professional game you know we haven't got an ABA championship behind
0:24.4	you an Olympic gold or anything else.
0:25.8	Then to have a loss on your record, even though it's not as bad it is now, it's kind of like
0:29.5	it still makes things that much more difficult. I know I think they approached McKee Mike Barrett and he said if I take
0:37.2	Colin on he's a beaten fighter. It was the kind of thing of the following day when you wake up in hospital and you realize,
0:46.7	I may have kind of lost and you know my shoulders gone and obviously you kind of think you don't know
0:52.3	how it's going to heal and how it's going to affect the rest of your career.
0:55.4	It's kind of like a difficult one because as you said before everything was like just falling into place. you know, there were so many big expectations.
1:07.0	So to have that all of a sudden, it's like the,
1:10.0	someone pulled the rock under your feet.
1:12.0	So, I mean, it was difficult to kind of like to
1:14.7	understand for the first in the first few weeks and that yeah.
1:20.0	They were they were they were difficult days because you know from a financial point of view you got a young family to support.
1:25.2	You don't know what's going to happen.
1:29.2	You don't know if you're going to fight again or where your career is going to end up and you know you're
1:34.9	not sure if you can call it a day and try something different. There's so much uncertainty.
1:39.8	But you know just try to try to say strong and you know carry on, you know with that dream. Oh, Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Trist Dixon. My guest this week
2:16.7	is the brilliant former WBO Featherweight champion of the world Colin Macmillan.
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