Season 3: #24 Buddy McGirt

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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James 'Buddy' McGirt is a former two-weight world champion who has gone on to achieve a decorated second career as a trainer. As a fighter, he boxed the likes of Frankie Warren, Pernell Whitaker, Simon Brown and Meldrick Taylor but he fell on hard times and found out who his friends were. He, he talks about the best and worst moments of his career, his relationship with John Gotti, training Arturo Gatti for the Micky Ward fights and their subsequent fall out and much more in a must-listen episode. There's a good chance you've never heard him so open. 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	What does home mean to you? I'm Jimmy Femarewa, writer, broadcaster, and restaurant critic.
0:06.4	And I've been speaking to well-known names about what home means to them.
0:10.6	And it was in the East End, it was in Burmese, when Burmese was rough.
0:13.7	I remember thinking, look at the boys, they're going to fancy me.
0:16.4	Good number, Otty, and a chicken curry, you are full, you are connected to your culture,
0:22.0	and you may get a heart attack.
0:23.9	That's where's home really, with me, Jimmy Femarewa.
0:27.3	Find it wherever you're listening to this.
0:30.1	One time a fed came to the gym, just fed away, this FBI agent was two of them,
0:34.3	a man and a woman, they came to the gym, and they said to me,
0:40.3	buddy, why haven't you been to John Goddard's trial?
0:43.4	And I said, I'm champ now, I don't need that type of publicity.
0:49.3	You know, while I would call certain friends that I thought were my friends at the time,
0:54.8	and then knew I was in a bad position, when I got done fighting,
0:59.4	there's your champ, let me quote you back, and hang up, motherfuckers won't call me back.
1:04.4	I was like, wow, family, my own family, my siblings, who I took care of,
1:10.8	I put food on their table, kept booths over their head, but all their kids closed,
1:15.0	took care of all of them. They laughed at me.
1:20.2	When I knew by watching him fight that after five or six rounds, he steps on the gas.
1:26.1	So, when he steps on the gas, you get to be able to step on the gas twice as hard.
1:32.5	Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me,
1:36.0	Christix, what happened in the ring after the Tyson only got his child's play compared to that.
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