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Boxing Life Stories

Season 2: #49 Carl Thompson

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Former WBO world cruiserweight champion Carl Thompson might be Britain's most exciting fighter of all time. Thompson would often overcome adversity, hurt, floored, behind on points and seconds from defeat only to rally and ultimately provide a back catalogue of storybook comebacks in his 34-6 career. He was a thunderous hitter and ducked no one. He fought the likes of Chris Eubank, Johnny Nelson, David Haye, Sebastian Rothmann, Ezra Sellers, Terry Dunstan, Ralf Rocchigiani, Nicky Piper and many more. Now, this retired warrior is a personal trainer and in this revealing interview he discusses his start as a Thai-boxer, his role as a boxing cult hero, the violent wars, his fighting heart and how he got it and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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18 only. Search Home Office jobs to find out more. They never made me want to do

0:32.0

boxing there. They didn't give me that, oh yeah, I must want to do boxing.

0:36.2

I just, I'm, I want to do boxing because it's the only way I can try and change my life.

0:41.6

I had, I'm told my friends was going to be worth jumping.

0:46.4

I want to go out beat through your fights. They were looking at me, yeah. You're going to be

0:50.5

worth jumping you got beat it through your fights. I. I said yeah but listen I cried when I lost the very first fight

0:56.9

I was under one or two I cried I walked the streets I was I was a

1:01.6

what the hell am I going to do with myself they I lost you know I mean

1:06.8

I don't I don't believe in a step back I should if I when I look at myself I thought

1:12.4

really why come and

1:13.6

a half step back and make them miss sometimes but it

1:15.9

was just wasn't in my character at that particular time

1:19.2

I just come forward a lot to involved in a good tale really and that was my character. I was just like to be involved.

1:28.0

A man that was one of my horrible time in my life I'm telling you.

1:35.0

And then when I decided to come back that was so hard

1:40.0

because you had to get your fitness back and I don't know how I would have

1:46.2

I did it. The reason why I'm saying that I've been in too many hard fights he thought

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