Season 3: #16 David Diamante

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Ring announcer David Diamante talks about making it to the top of his profession as one of the very best in the business. David, a cigar-smoking (he also has owned a cigar lounge and has his own brand of cigars), fifth generation Brooklynite, talks about his upbringing in Baltimore and coming through the hard way following addictions to drink and drugs when his life threatened to spiral out of control. Now 28 years sober and one of the most recognisable faces in the sport, Diamante has announced big fights the world over, including in Las Vegas, New York and all over Europe and in Saudi Arabia. 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 might just have to be boxing life stories
0:03.8	I feel like it's a one I feel like it's kind of a one word thing you know
0:08.7	so these people that are struggling with with alcohol abuse and drug abuse
0:13.2	there's a way out of this and the thing that resonates so deeply with the
0:17.4	meetings is that it's people that have gone through it so it's not some guy that
0:22.2	read in a textbook well this is
0:23.7	what you do no it's someone that's been there you know they'll tell you I shot heroin
0:27.1	on my eyeball you know like damn I thought I was bad you know what I mean like you'll
0:30.9	hear some really rugged stories. When the bell rings we find out how your training went
0:37.2	we'll find out what you're made of we find out what's beating
0:40.1	beneath your chest you can't hide in the ring.
0:43.7	Hello and welcome to Boxing Life stories
0:46.1	with me Tristics.
0:47.1	What happened in the ring after T rhizinolica
0:49.8	was Charles Blake compared to that one.
0:51.8	It's still a cool song to that one. He still had cool spong to this day.
0:54.0	He just couldn't take the tears from his eyes
0:58.0	or the smile off his face, could you?
1:00.0	I know.
1:01.0	I tell you bit bitten me, he said, well, let's boy in the back and the paper they made me look like alcohol pond.
1:05.8	This is going to beat you all night.
1:07.2	He's winning and there's nothing else.
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