Season 3: #25 Frankie Gavin

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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For many, Frankie Gavin is the most gifted amateur boxer the UK has seen. A World amateur champion, he routinely beat the best Americans, Eastern Europeans and Cubans on his way to an Olympic berth at the 2008 Beijing Games. However, having qualified so long before heading to China, he started a battle with the scales that took over his life for a year. He ended up missing the weight and flying home, his Olympic dream over. He turned pro with Frank Warren and would win British and Commonwealth titles but lose in bids for European and world honours. It was a stellar career, but here he ponders whether he fulfilled his potential or not and looks back with searing honesty about what might have been. 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'll be honest, I thought I was unbeatable. I used to go to tournaments and I used to,
0:04.7	and then when I was first going amateur, I used to go places and I was hoping I'd draw in,
0:09.7	I was hoping I'd draw in. I used to sit there, everyone I was thinking about the draw.
0:13.9	I used to be chilling, playing my game, not caring, waiting to come in and tell me who I'm
0:17.2	fighting. I never used to cross my mind. I used to think, whoever, I'll be.
0:23.5	I don't want to mount my mistakes on a good fight in the pro game, and then he loses his career
0:28.3	because of my mistakes. So when I'm ready, and I feel I'm ready, I'm getting there,
0:32.6	when I'm ready to believe I can take a pro further than he is, then I'll do it, but until then,
0:38.4	I want to contract and graduate and I'll learn my trade out, and then I'll do it.
0:45.2	What's your school of thought when I say this? You were a British Commonwealth champion,
0:51.2	you challenged for European World titles. That's a great career. Do you agree?
0:58.6	For some people, yeah. Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me,
1:03.1	Christyx. What happened in the ring after tasting only good with his child's play,
1:07.5	compared to that before? Still they've caused problems to this day.
1:12.0	You couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile for this face, could you?
1:16.3	I know.
1:17.0	I shouldn't have beaten me into one of those four years back, and the paper didn't make me look
1:21.2	like alcohol porn. The issue's going to be your night.
1:23.7	There's a winning, and there's nothing else.
1:27.8	Thanks for joining me this week, and I'm grateful for the brilliant feedback from the
1:31.6	buddy McGurt interview last week. This week, I'm with Gifted Former World Amateur Champion Frankie
1:37.4	Gavin, and I try to answer all the questions you may have wanted the answers to, such as,
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