Season 2: #33 Mikkel Kessler

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

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5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Viking Warrior Mikkel Kessler fought the likes of Joe Calzaghe, Carl Froch and Andre Ward in a decorated career that saw him capture the WBA and WBC titles at super-middleweight. From fighting early on in Las Vegas to being on the big Mike Tyson-Brian Neilsen bill at the Parken in Copenhagen, he was initially guided by Hall of Fame promoter Mogens Palle. He unified the titles and scored wins over Anthony Mundine, Marcus Beyer and Eric Lucas before his huge night in Wales against Calzaghe. Kessler fought in the brilliant Super Six series, learned to ride fast motorbikes and a comeback was curtailed after he was bitten by a tick and hospitalised. Here, he talks about the big nights, who would have won between Froch and Calzaghe and Calzaghe and Ward and much more. Now now he lives quietly in Denmark.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Tristics.
0:03.8	What happened in the ring after,
0:05.8	that's an only good was Charles Blake compared to that one.
0:08.5	Still the cool sponge to this day.
0:10.0	Ha ha ha ha.
0:12.0	Just, you couldn't take the tears from his eyes or smile off his face, could you?
0:16.4	I know.
0:17.4	I should be bitten me.
0:18.8	He's a bullet bull in back.
0:20.4	And the paper they made me look like Al-Kampine. This is going to be your night.
0:24.0	There's winning and there's nothing else.
0:28.0	This week my guest is the one and only Michael Kessler.
0:32.0	He's a Danish legend. He's the Viking Warrior.
0:34.4	You'll be able to hear I have so much respect for Michael Kessler as I do for all of those
0:38.7	guys at 168 pounds who fought each other. He did fight them all. Obviously when you look at three of the best in
0:46.1	recent times you're looking at Joe Cows Aye, you're looking at Andre Ward and you're looking at
0:50.2	Carl Froch and he fought all of them and this is even before he'd sort of unified and fought the likes or sorry this even after the he'd fought the likes of Anthony Mundine Eric Lucas Byer to unify the titles at 168. It's interesting, you know,
1:08.0	I haven't heard a bad word about Kessler ever on the circuit from anyone.
1:13.8	And it's interesting that even as you're here here
1:16.4	in this podcast, that the usual trash talking of Anthony Mundine
1:21.2	and apparently he was very respectful of Kessler and why wouldn't you be really he's
1:26.7	not just an easy-going guy but he is a warrior through and through He fights with his heart and with a great deal of skill.
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