Season 3: #15 Scott Welch

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion shares his incredible stories, from being on the Tyson-Holyfield I bill in Vegas, to laying out Brad Pitt in Snatch, his on-off friendship with Herbie Hide, brutal sparring sessions and much more on an incredible heavyweight scene that saw him challenge for the WBO title. Here, he talks about the likes of Akinwande, the late James Oyebola and Gary Mason respectively, Frank Bruno, Lennox Lewis and also the incredible charity work that has seen him complete the Marathon Des Sables, scale Kilimanjaro and much more – and he also talks about the motivation behind it. He also discusses his work for the WBC with their wheelchair boxing programme and the programmes he runs through the WBC for underprivileged children in a humours but at times moving interview. 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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0:30.0	Absolutely, I mean, I think I'd signed a fight George Foreman. I was fighting George Foreman in the next fight. I think it was a hundred grand and I was getting, you know, a hundred grand was like a million quid then or more than a million pounds. So I think that fight was done.
0:44.0	Van Hollifield was wingside. I had my family, I've got family in upstate New York and
0:49.2	that they'd all come down to see me so absolutely devastating. If there'd have been a rock I would have climbed under
0:54.8	and never come out again. Oh, immensely. I mean, we, I would say I hated him because he took someone from me you know
1:07.0	I was an angry hungry guy and that doesn't change you know you know Hollyfield Tyson you know these guys is still in them in them now
1:16.8	They you know we don't change we're not you know that that never leaves you
1:24.0	If we die in the ring, it's that's what we accepted.
1:28.0	That was what I accepted.
1:29.0	So each fight I was told to fight as hard as you can, leave everything in the ring and if we, you know, I accepted that when I went out to fight, if I die, then I die.
1:42.0	Did you go from being a scally in Great Yarmouth to a hard-working boxer in
1:48.6	Brighton or were you still a scally at the start in Brighton. I'll always be a scaly.
1:54.0	Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Tristics.
1:59.0	What happened in the ring after Tizing Nola Good was Charles Charles Blake compared to that one.
2:04.0	Still the pushpong to this day.
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