Season 2: #5 Bones Adams

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Former world super-bantamweight champion Bones Adams is now one of the go-to trainers in Las Vegas. But life has been challenging for him. Born into poverty in Kentucky, he soon found himself tied up with gang life in Detroit. His godfather, the infamous Johnny Ace, was shot and murdered. Bones started fighting. It was something that came naturally to him and it led him to big fights with the likes of Paulie Ayala, Nestor Gaza, Guty Espades and Kevin Kelley. While he rated Prince Naseem Hamed, he craved the Erik Morales fight and it was there for him until he lost his hotly-disputed first bout with Ayala. That sucked the life from him and he was never the same again. He struggled in retirement, went off the rails, went to jail and he nearly suffered similar fates to his late friends, Johnny Tapia and Diego Corrales, Adams is a complex person, always has been, always will be.

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0:00.0	You build, that's what you do.
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0:30.0	When I turn, once I turn 13, I'd say I started knocking kids out. Like, I mean literally like out cold.
0:37.2	I haven't watched it since probably then.
0:44.0	Oh, were they back in that?
0:45.0	All the way back in 2000.
0:46.0	It ruined my life.
0:48.0	It literally ruined my life.
0:50.0	They don't know whether it doesn't they want to do that to people you know these
0:55.2	judges like they ruined fighters lives I mean you obviously see and instead of them
0:59.4	going and saying you know okay I made a mistake or doing whatever I was it they never admit to it and they know that they do.
1:05.0	But the thing is too is that what got me going for that fight too is because I was promised Eric Morales for over a million dollars from my next fight.
1:16.1	And that's what got me going.
1:17.3	I was really wanting to beat his ass, you know what I mean?
1:20.2	For that reason.
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