Season 2: #50 Nigel Benn

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Nigel Benn is a British sporting icon and one of boxing's best-loved warriors. Here, in the Boxing Life Stories 100th episode, he discusses his monumental fights with the likes of bitter rival Chris Eubank, Americans including Doug Dewitt, Gerald McClellan and Iran Barkley, as well as Steve Collins, Michael Watson and many more. At times humours, at others sad, Benn talks about his battles away from the ring... The fight to save his marriage, his addiction to ecstasy, the ill-advised comeback attempt of 2019, the devastating lows he's survived and much more. This is an unflinching interview with a man who, as he did throughout his career, wears his heart on his sleeve. It's the brilliant Nigel Benn as you've never heard him before. Boxing Life Stories is now on Patreon. You can get access to research, unseen photographs from Boxing Life Stories, go behind the scenes of the podcast with Tris Dixon and even get some episodes early. 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 Follow Tris on twitter @trisdixon and instagram @trisdixon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The When I was in the army with you're a relay race I come in second I was happy and the start
0:26.2	magic goes, you knacker, you're deafening blind at me, he said, look, there's someone in front
0:31.3	of you, be number one second to no one.
0:34.0	And that was exactly the same comment I said after the Gerald McClellan fight.
0:38.4	I said to Don King.
0:40.1	I said I'm number one second to no it and that all come back from the army.
0:43.7	I always wanted to be really in a hard fight like the proper rocky film I want it be like like that I like I like having a
0:56.2	real fight I don't mind if I get knocked down but I know as long as I'm in that fight it's going to be a
1:02.3	fight and that's what happens some people just brought out the animal in me
1:10.2	I underestimated his power and I looked at his body and I think oh my gosh lord why have you
1:17.8	giving him a body like that a mere body like this because he had muscles on top of muscles. He did and when he hit me and I'm bering!
1:27.0	Oh I felt that one.
1:30.0	From there. That's where my life changed. My career changed. From there. You know, I like
1:40.2	being honest with the British public. I've got nothing to hide. God says when the
1:45.2	sun sets you free you're free indeed so where I've come from from that position
1:49.4	it's like a whole life change but in that time from the Malinga fight after that the
1:56.2	night that Saturday night someone gave me a taxi tabble I didn't know what it was
2:01.9	I didn't know what it was and that was it and from then I was hooked
2:10.8	Would you be here if she hadn't been with you?
2:14.0	No I think it's two places I've been a mental hospital or sick for under.
2:23.0	Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Tristics.
2:27.0	What happened in the ring after...
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