Season 3: #14 George Groves

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 207 minutes

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George Groves has had one of the most iconic careers in British boxing in the last 25 years. A world champion at the fourth and final attempt, he shared an audience of 80,000 at Wembley with Carl Froch, had a bitter feud with James DeGale, worked with Adam Booth, Paddy Fitzpatrick and Shane McGuigan and was involved in a fight that left Eduard Gutknecht with life-changing injuries. He also fought Chris Eubank, Callum Smith, Martin Murray, Badou Jack, Kenny Anderson and a host of other leading names. Promotionally, he's worked with Frank Warren, Eddie Hearn, Hayemaker, Kellie Maloney, Golden Boy, the Sauerlands and Mayweather Promotions and here, the father of two talks about the old as well as the new challenges that lie ahead after boxing. 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	I think it's my wife who come up with this way of putting it.
0:05.1	It's just like you're on the path, but now you're on this lane,
0:10.2	but now you're in this lane.
0:11.3	You still go in the same way, but you know, everything's just changed and you see things totally differently and you think and feel differently.
0:19.0	Definitely softened me as a man, as a fighter.
0:24.0	Yeah yeah I was definitely pissed off as I definitely wanted I didn't want him to have any success
0:31.0	didn't think he deserved it. He just thought that it was a, you know, just had to show up to win.
0:37.0	It was a foregone conclusion, he was going to get paid handsomely for it. It was, you know, big profile
0:41.0	fight. I was doing the donkey work in promoting it I mean and he was just
0:47.1	trying to convince me no one else just me that I was in over my head.
0:57.0	Just all of a sudden he'd won something and right up until that point
1:00.0	between the first fight, the fight and the build-up for the second fight, I felt like
1:04.4	it won nothing.
1:05.4	So I was very disappointed in myself thinking you haven't won this and then we stand up and shake
1:09.7	and you know there's always that, is there going to be a handshake it's like
1:14.5	try to figure something a little bit more original shall we it's like but I'm
1:19.2	always like yeah I'll stick to the rules shake his hand I don't care
1:21.6	but nothing there's you're beneath me at this point,
1:24.2	so I put my hand out,
1:24.8	and I want to give him a nice firm hand-shay.
1:26.8	Hello and welcome to boxing life stories
1:29.2	with me, Tristics.
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