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Boxing Life Stories

Season 2: #37 Curtis Cokes

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary


The late International Boxing Hall Of Famer Curtis Cokes was a world welterweight champion who became a top trainer. Universally liked and respected Cokes welcomed Boxing Life Stories host Tris Dixon into his home on the outskirts of Dallas back in 2010. Then 73 years of age, Curtis looked back over his career, talked about training fighters and some of the lows he experienced through his life in the sport. Cokes won 62 fights (30 inside the distance), suffered 14 losses and was involved in four draws. He fought the likes of Jose Napoles, Joe Miceli, Gypsy Joe Harris, Luis Rodriguez, Kitten Hayward, Stan Harrington, Manuel Gonzalez and many others and as a trainer he worked with Ike Ibeabuchi, Kirk Johnson and Quincy Taylor.

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0:00.0

Tell me about Ike.

0:02.0

He was one of my favorites because when they, a friend of his saw me in South Africa and he told me,

0:11.0

if he ever come to the United States, to come and look me up.

0:14.4

And my mother brought him to me when he was about 19, I guess.

0:19.1

And I put him in the golden gloves and he won everything.

0:21.8

He won the state and went to the nationals and he didn't do

0:24.7

too well in the nation but we turned pro and he just was a fine student you know he learned real fast

0:31.8

and he wanted you to teach him something new every day so we had a good relationship.

0:38.0

I was an athlete and I could play baseball, I could play basketball, I could play like a box and I tell people about boxing. You can play

0:47.2

baseball and you can play basketball but you can't play boxing. It was, the guys were good and capable of being world champions.

0:56.4

You know they just had the standard line and went their turn and I tell these young

0:59.9

guys today they rushed these guys to the championship and they don't even know how to

1:04.7

throw a jab. They don't even know what to survive. And, you know, and they don't have their

1:09.4

PhD. I think we did. We had our PhD before we learned when we won the championship. It was

1:14.2

difference.

1:15.2

Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Tristics.

1:18.6

What happened in the ring after T rhizenol His child's play compared to that one.

1:23.0

He still had pools for me to this day.

1:25.0

He just, you couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile

1:30.0

for the face, could you?

1:31.0

I know.

1:32.0

He's bit bitten me. He's a bullet thing. I know. And the paper that made me look like Al-Kampine.

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