Season 3: #28 Don Broadhurst

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Don Broadhurst didn't have it easy. The former Commonwealth champion – both amateur and professional – endured a stop-start career. He fought Lee Haskins, competed in Prizefighter and made several defences of his Commonwealth crown but didn't reach the heights he hoped to. Now training boxers, he talks about the death of his brother, how his mother was diagnosed with cancer just after he'd moved to Australia for a fresh start and the regrets he has over his career.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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0:29.2	will.
0:30.2	It's not like I hated boxing, I fought a little for it, and it showed in my performances
0:34.2	like just fighting these germs, I'm going to be blood, I won't really move, it's
0:39.2	from the soil, it was hard fighting world class amateur, then people who want to run away
0:42.9	and hold, it was just hard for me to adapt because of the circumstances, nothing to do
0:47.8	with me, because that's the protest all anyway.
0:52.3	And that noise, you just all come out after that voice, and you know what, I was more bothered
0:56.6	about my personal life, that noise, than my fight, my personal life at that time hurt
1:00.6	more than losing a fight, you know, it's not that I didn't love boxing I did, but the
1:06.8	opportunities weren't worse, weren't there, and I'm quite a realistic sometimes, do you
1:13.0	know what, my bubble's been burst once, twice, three times, I mean, am I ever going to
1:17.4	get to where I should have been?
1:19.0	Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Tristics, what happened in the ring
1:23.4	after facing only good with his child's play compared to that, still a close bond to
1:28.3	this day?
1:29.3	You couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile of his face, could you?
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