Season 2: #39 Doug Fischer

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 175 minutes

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Summary

Doug Fischer is the editor-in-chief of The Ring and has one of the most glamorous-looking jobs in the sport. However, it's all grind and it took him years to rise to that position. Here he details his story, from helping boxing break into new media with House of Boxing and the move into Maxboxing before joining The Ring. He, with an early team, was a boxing pioneer who started filming sparring, behind the scenes interviews and uploading audio files as boxing coverage moved into the 21st century. Along the way, there were brushes with the likes of Edwin Valero, Shane Mosley, Shannon Briggs and James Toney. Fischer talks about working for Golden Boy (who own The Ring) and the troubles that has brought him, tips about how to break into the business and his long-term hopes both for himself and for The Ring.

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0:00.0	Something magical has arrived at Manchester.
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0:29.6	Do you want to be a wolf or a sheep?
0:33.0	Like what?
0:34.0	Do you want to be a leader or a follower?
0:37.0	You know?
0:38.0	He's slamming his fist on this conference table.
0:41.0	Like he's like a dictator you know he's like I want
0:44.0	leaders we lead the way if something bad in boxing happens we say what's right
0:50.8	and what happened on Saturday night is wrong.
0:53.4	Watching Valero workout was like watching Shane Mosley workout.
0:59.6	Watching Shane Mosley worked out in 93, 94, 95 was like watching a dude who's possessed, but good
1:06.7	nature.
1:08.8	Watching Evelyn Valero train workout in 2003 and 2004 and 2005 is like watching a man possessed who is crazy.
1:19.0	Start writing. Just start writing. So you got to learn your craft. You got to learn your craft first. You have to become familiar with writing about boxing. You can be a good writer you could have that
1:34.8	background you could have experience in writing because you went to college and maybe
1:38.8	you were in English major or a literature major and all that and you know how to write, you know how to put words in the sentence and it's beautiful and it flows and all that good stuff and that's great, that's a great step forward.
1:50.0	But you may not know boxing and you may not use, you may not be used to putting boxing in certain
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