Season 2: #29 Stanley 'Kitten' Hayward
Boxing Life Stories
Tris Dixon
5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Stanley 'Kitten' Hayward was a world class Philadelphia welterweight who beat future Hall of Famers Curtis Cokes and Emile Griffith and he also battled city rivals Bennie Briscoe, Cyclone Hart, Gypsy Joe Harris and Bennie Briscoe. He turned pro all the way back in 1959 and after a 47-fight career he had a successful career working in the Philadelphia law courts, where we first met some 15 years ago. 'Kitten' is now 80 but he has some stories to tell, remembering some of the rivals he faced, the fighters he sparred and the old gangsters he knew. This episode also features Tris in a Twitter Q and A after the interview.
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| 0:30.0 | Boxing is a hard game for anybody, you know, the things you have to go through. |
| 0:37.0 | And the things that I went through, it was tough, but I just kept on doing it. |
| 0:44.0 | Oh, maybe I'm quiet but I'm I'm still I still got that I can still got that meanness of me. |
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| 1:01.0 | eating if you want to be a good fighter come to full off you you'll be a good fighter. |
| 1:06.2 | You can take them to the top, but only thing about them is, they don't listen after that. They think they are all that. |
| 1:16.0 | You can't teach you nothing no more. |
| 1:18.0 | Follow me? And the Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Trist Dixon. This |
| 1:46.2 | podcast was actually recorded at the end of last year in Philadelphia. I've been |
| 1:51.0 | saving it for a rainy day and well it might not actually be raining but |
| 1:56.4 | we're all stuck indoors anyway and here it is it's Stanley Kit and Hayward a |
| 2:01.8 | Philadelphia fighting legend. He won 31 fights, lost 12 and drew 4. |
| 2:08.0 | He made his debut all the way back in 1959. |
| 2:12.0 | His biggest win came against future Hall of Fame |
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