Season 3: #31 Steve Farhood

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Showtime announcer Steve Farhood is an International Boxing Hall of Fame boxing journalist. He had long spells as the editor of KO Magazine and then The Ring before a long and illustrious career working as a broadcaster. Steve is an old school New Yorker and here talks about his encounters with the likes of Cus D'Amato, Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather, Meldrick Taylor, Muhammad Ali – including covering Ali's last two fights – and many more. 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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0:31.0	And I remember that first show very well how nervous I was,
0:34.0	and I remember holding the microphone just before we went on air,
0:38.0	and being scared that my heartbeat would sound on the microphone.
0:43.0	Total chaos, and I remember very well climbing over a barricade,
0:48.0	literally climbing over a barricade.
0:50.0	And I was 22, 23 years old, so I was a little more fit.
0:53.0	And if I had to do that now, I would have watched the fight
0:55.0	in the arena.
0:56.0	But I was able to climb over a barricade to get in,
0:59.0	because no one had the keys to open the locks to let us in.
1:03.0	So it was really a minor league baseball park and a minor league promotion.
1:10.0	When a fighter like Adonis suffers of bad injury,
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