Season 3: #2 Joe Hughes

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Joe Hughes was born with Erb's Palsy, which meant his right arm hasn't developed the same way as his left. While not a one-handed fighter, he's built a successful career with a real disability and one he's happy to talk about. Here, in an in-depth interview, he talks about his struggles in and out of the ring, how despite knock backs, bad scorecards and much more his heart and determination took him to a European title and to the brink of a world title fight. The decorated former amateur star discusses the social media trolls he's encountered, his incredible rise, the disappointments he's fought through and much more. Whether you know the Joe Hughes story or not, this is well worth your time. A truly inspirational man whose story reaches well beyond 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 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	With my left hand everything's natural so I don't even doesn't in the ring it doesn't even
0:04.8	cross my mind what I'm doing with that it just happens with my right hand I sort of have to say right
0:08.6	I'm going to throw the right hand now here it comes it comes I'm going to throw it and eventually I'll throw it.
0:14.0	There it won't.
0:15.0	Yeah, exactly. It's not like instinct.
0:17.0	Whereas my left hand is not even a thought or you know the movement and slip and everything like that.
0:21.0	It's not just second nature.
0:23.2	I'd take my shirt off on the beach I'm not worried about it. I fight in front of
0:27.8	thousands of people on TV with my shirt off and and quite happily speak about it.
0:33.0	But yeah, there is sort of like,
0:35.0	that doesn't it look quite right to me in my head
0:39.0	when you look at yourself in the mirror sometimes,
0:42.0	but you've got to get on with it
0:44.5	and there's nothing you can do about it. I thought I won the fight by a few rounds
0:49.3	so did everybody else I think thought that except for the people that mattered, which is the judges of course.
0:55.0	It's another case of one of these, in my opinion, which will become a reoccurring theme as we go through this.
1:06.7	They don't seem to like me very much and I don't think don't know if it's my style I don't know if it's just because I'm the away
1:09.6	fighter I don't know if it's just they're not you know not the small town
1:13.8	Yeah, and it or it might be nothing to do with me. It might be they're just looking after the promoter side of it
1:18.7	Which happens in boxing which is wrong, but we all know it does happen
1:25.0	Who knows but it seems to keep happening. It's life, that's life isn't it?
1:29.0	And I think that's part of my career.
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