Season 2: #8 Teddy Atlas

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Teddy Atlas was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2019. He is one of the foremost fight commentators of this generation and one of the boxing's great trainers. He welcomed Boxing Life Stories host Tris Dixon into his Staten Island home to go through his story and his time in the sport. Starting with an intimate look at his childhood and the moments that carved his character, Atlas remembers his time running wild in New York before moving to Catskill where he was moulded further still by Hall of Fame trainer Cus D'Amato. Atlas gives great insight into those days, recalls the first time he set eyes on a young prospect named Mike Tyson and much more. Atlas also discusses many of the stars he's trained, including Michael Moorer, Wilfred Benitez, Donnie Lalonde and others but it's after his light-heavyweight champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk recently suffered a hurtful loss to Artur Beterbiev that shows him in a light you may not have seen him in before. It's compelling listening. Next week: Irish Micky Ward talks about The Fighter, the film of his life, the Gatti trilogy and so much more. Boxing Life Stories is brought to you by Hanson Lee Resourcing and DELCO Safety Compliance. Teddy's book, Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man is now available as an audiobook with Teddy narrating https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07X4DZDGT/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taud_p1_i0

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0:30.0	I decided to make myself sick. I decided to get hurt.
0:33.3	So I went out on the streets and sure as hell
0:36.4	I created enough havoc to get hurt
0:40.3	and to get his attention.
0:43.0	This young man has character, you can't see it,
0:47.0	but it's there and if we put him in jail, we're going to lose a chance to have somebody who might be special.
0:52.0	I couldn't believe he said that. lose a chance to have somebody who might be special.
0:52.8	I couldn't believe he said that.
0:54.0	It hurts.
0:57.0	It doesn't hurt because we lost.
1:00.0	It hurts because I feel I failed to fighter.
1:05.0	Because if you ever noticed,
1:10.0	there's winning and there and nothing else.
1:15.0	There is no consolation prize. And the Hello and welcome to this week's Boxing Life Stories with me Tristixen.
1:47.0	My guest is the brilliant TV analyst and Boxing Coach Teddy Atlas who was inducted into the Hall of Fame this year.
1:55.0	Since I started this podcast lots of people have asked me to get Teddy on the show
1:59.0	and I'm grateful because when I messaged Teddy originally to do it I spoke to a gentleman David Berlin who represents him and David said well because Teddy has his own podcast called The Fight which is a brilliant
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