Season 2: #34 Larry Merchant

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Larry Merchant was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2009. For 35 years he was the conscience of HBO Boxing, working alongside the likes of George Foreman, Gil Clancy, Jim Lampley and Emanuel Steward. But he's been in boxing far longer. Here, Larry recalls covering his first major fight, Sugar Ray Robinson against Carmen Basilio in 1957, being an early investor in Joe Frazier's journey, interviewing Sonny Liston, flying to Zaire with Muhammad Ali, falling out with some of boxing's big guns and much, much more. His iconic post-fight interviews with the likes of Mike Tyson, Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins have become part of boxing folklore, along with the infamous night he told Floyd Mayweather, "If I was 50 years younger I'd kick your ass."

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0:30.0	I think the Fraser Ali fight, the third fight in Manila, was just about the fiercest fight I've ever seen.
0:47.0	Incidentally, I like to say today that if Don King were born white and rich, he'd be Donald Trump.
1:01.2	And Donald Trump was born poor and black he'd be done king.
1:07.0	But there was Hopkins, there was Oscar, there was Floyd, you have fallouts with all these guys. Yeah, only the big ones.
1:18.6	Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Tristics.
1:24.0	What happened in the ring after
1:26.0	that's an only good was Charles play compared to that one.
1:29.0	Still they're coolspong to this day.
1:30.0	Ha ha ha ha ha.
1:32.0	Just you couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile of his face, could you?
1:36.6	I know.
1:37.6	I should be bitten me.
1:38.6	He said, well, that boy you back.
1:40.6	And the paper they made me look like Al-Pahine.
1:42.8	This is going to be your night.
1:44.2	It's winning and there's nothing else.
1:47.8	This week I'm fortunate to be joined by my friend in Los Angeles in Santa Monica Larry Merchant the veteran
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