Season 3: #13 Thomas Hauser

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Hauser is one of the leading boxing writers of the generation. He penned Muhammad Ali's biography with him, Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times and has written both well-received books including The Black Lights and Waiting For Carver Boyd. He had an impressive career even before he started working in boxing but has subsequently become boxing's go-to investigative reporter, writing long-form pieces on PEDs, corruption, incompetence and all of the other things fight fans love and hate about the sport. Here, he talks about his experiences with Ali and reflects upon his award-laden past, which should have seen him inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame this year until Covid saw this class delayed – to be enshrined in 2022. 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 RESOURCING 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 @boxing_life_stories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Boxing is a great writer's sport.
0:03.8	I've said many times that some of the best people I've met in my life are in boxing.
0:09.4	Many of the worst people I've ever met in my life are in boxing, but it's never boring.
0:14.6	It's a great writer's sport.
0:16.1	And they said to me if you are going to write about boxing you have to talk to customado and they arranged for me to go up to Catskill New York and spend a weekend in the farmhouse. This was October of
0:36.0	1983 and one of the people living in the farmhouse at that time who I spent some time with on that weekend, was a 17-year-old
0:47.0	named Mike Tyson.
0:51.0	Referees and judges who are either incompetent or biased, most people in boxing know who they are,
0:58.0	and yet these people keep getting work and more work. It's horrified.
1:06.0	At one point then he had this tape that segued into Mick Jagger singing satisfaction.
1:16.8	And he's singing, I Can't Get No, and Ricky's singing, I Can't Get No, and Tom Jones was in the dressing room too so Ray and Tom
1:26.2	Jones and I are sitting I can't get no and and I'm thinking wow I mean it just I mean it doesn't get any if you have to work on a Saturday night
1:38.1	This is not a bad way to do it
1:41.2	Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Tristics.
1:45.0	What happened in the ring after
1:46.6	T d'Ithon only good was Charles play compared to that one.
1:49.7	Still the pool's point to this day.
1:51.0	Ha ha ha ha ha. You couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile off his face, could you?
1:58.0	I know.
1:59.0	I should be bitten me.
2:00.0	He said, well, that boy you in the back.
2:01.0	And the paper they made me look like, go out on a bond.
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