Season 2: #3 Robert Smith

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Former fighter Robert Smith is now the general secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control. As a boxer, he sparred the likes of John Mugabi, Dave Green, James Cook and Mark Kaylor while getting in the ring with Lloyd Honeyghan at late notice at the Royal Albert Hall. But he was plagued by injuries and found work as an engineer. From a family of fighters, Smith is now one of the major players on the British landscape and here he talks about his life as a boxer and his time at the helm of the BBB of C in a candid interview with Tris Dixon just days before he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement award from the Boxing Writers' Club.

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0:00.0	Andrew was at an age where he was experimenting with cold water therapy.
0:04.4	And Andrew was also at an age where he was experimenting with manscaping.
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0:30.0	October 18, but big mistake, too young in the hindsight. I was always prone to injury as an amateur and for some daft reason I was always
0:37.9	prone to injury as an amateur and for some daft reason I thought well I'm getting fed up with this
0:43.7	getting injured all the time as an amateur I might as well get injured as a pro and I got
0:49.0	after good fly but then I broke my hand against Chuck called Dennis Shee and I think it was.
0:55.0	Four fight.
0:56.0	Four fight at the Albert Hall.
0:58.0	And then I was out for about a year.
0:59.0	And then everything started going wrong then, my shoulder.
1:02.0	I mean, I broke my hand twice, fractured my thumb five times and
1:05.8	my shoulder popped out three times. I remember one story that I've done I was about 14 15 and I got a brand new protector big
1:16.4	went around the side around your hips is I was so proud of it kind of thing
1:19.5	you know and my first sparring session with David was he hit me incredibly low and as I crumpled to the floor
1:27.5	He whispered in the ear does it work?
1:29.7	And people who get seriously injured, that's really, really tough.
1:38.0	And does that affect me? Of course it does. Does it affect my family?
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