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Boxing Life Stories

Season 2: #28 Geraldine Davies

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary


Gerladine Davies has been in boxing for four decades and has worked with a who's who of the sport. A fixer, a publicist, a point of contact... She's done it all, from hosting travel events in Las Vegas through the Fabulous Four era of Duran, Leonard, Hagler and Hearns to trying to salvage out of hand boxing parties in Boston, she was once thrown out of Johnny Tocco's famous gym for being a lady before going on to work with British stars like Ricky Hatton and Lennox Lewis. Now she's working for Mauricio Sulaiman, the head of the WBC, and Las Vegas-based fight artist Richard Slone. This is Geraldine's incredible life in boxing.

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So I look in and he said,

0:25.0

right, he said, come on, I've got to get this stuff in the case,

0:27.0

get the stuff in the case, right, open the case, open the case,

0:29.0

so we're wrapping stuff out and he said,

0:32.0

I can't find my foot and I said what didn't mean you can't find your

0:38.3

foot and he said my foot my foot I don't know what he's talking about.

0:44.0

And he said, get under and look under the bed.

0:48.0

So I'm looking under the bed.

0:50.0

And then I saw it on the far side.

0:52.0

I said, I think it's over that side he said oh thank God for that he said now I need a sock

1:00.0

I said a sock he said for the foot Oh, okay. Yeah, I'll leave that to you but you've got five minutes.

1:07.0

Oh and you're getting all hot and blustered and that was it and he got the foot on

1:12.0

Got the leg on and off we went downstairs and he got on the plane and after that we were quite friendly.

1:20.0

And then money used to like to dance and I like to dance and he said

1:24.8

Miss Geraldine I said yeah I like to dance Manny come on and then when we used to go to

1:29.6

Vegas we used to go out clubbing and go dancing and have dinner and yeah we used to get on really well he was lovely.

1:38.6

That was such I don't know who started that rumor. Just such a load of nonsense. And whoever knows who starts these rumors and why they start them. So, Hello and welcome to Boxer Live stories with me Trist Dixon.

2:13.2

Delight to say that my guest this week is Geraldine Davis.

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