Season 2: #48 Steve Wood

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Boxing manager and promoter Steve Wood found his way into the sport by forming a friendship with 'The Viking' Steve Foster Sr. A successful business man in his own right, Steve has managed the likes of John Murray, Jamie Moore and Josh Warrington and has seen the sport from all angles. He's lost money on small hall shows but has been ringside supporting his fighters in huge domestic and international clashes. Here he talks about the fighters who have come and gone, his hopes for the future, getting shot at and much more besides. Boxing Life Stories is now on Patreon. You can help support us through another 100 episodes and help us to grow by visiting www.patreon.com/trisdixon Boxing Life Stories is bought to you by HANSON LEE who were voted “The UK's Best Specialist Insurance-Sector Recruitment Firm for 2020” in the Corporate Excellence Awards. ‘Not only do we find the best people, we’ll help you retain them.' Discover more at HansonLee.com’ AND Delco Safety Compliance, who are a leading provider of professional fire, asbestos, and safety services to businesses nationwide. They offer one expert point of contact for all of your fire, health and safety compliance needs. Find out more at www.delcosafety.co.uk Community: twitter @trisdixon instagram @trisdixon

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0:29.9	Has never really changed.
0:31.3	These small horse shows are to develop the kids to get onto the big shows
0:36.5	where eventually they'll get decent money and hopefully are living out of boxing but you know probably 5% of boxes make make a living you know they all just get by don't they?
0:49.6	To be a good fight you can't be in the pub can you and you know you need other people
0:56.8	people to help you on that as well but you know it's funny isn't it some people
1:01.4	you think would sell tickets because they're out going
1:04.8	and they're out and about a bit of a jack the lad don't sell that many and then you see
1:09.4	somebody who you think oh he's not going to sell tickets but they've got a big family and
1:14.4	the family get behind him and support him and they sell really well.
1:18.0	I mean it's selling tickets it's a strange one.
1:26.7	I don't I don't really know. I mean the bottom line is it was our promotion so you know we picked what we could be a bear pit and Phil we
1:34.0	we suffered kids and even though Matthew Macklin
1:37.6	was a decent ticket seller I restricted him to tickets and funny enough
1:43.4	Kerry Kays who's now one of James best friends and
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