Season 3: #32 Don Majeski

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Don Majeski is a boxing agent and matchmaker who has been involved in the sport for more than 60 years and is one of the best storytellers the sport has known. He was at the Fight of the Century and The Rumble in the Jungle, he's been a journalist, matchmaker and agent and he's seen and done it all. This is a fun chat about history, gangsters, corruption and Don's remarkable life in the 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 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	We don't treat ourselves.
0:01.8	Oh, we do treat ourselves with a meal out.
0:05.5	The AMEX Platinum Card, with 300-pound global dining credit every year,
0:09.2	you can eat at the restaurants you've always wanted to try.
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0:17.3	terms apply 18 plus subject to approval.
0:21.7	But we are always given to, you know, enhancing the story or embellishments.
0:27.3	You know, there's, oh, the cliche I'm showing up here.
0:29.3	Well, we're going to win and then I looked in the corner as a guy pulled out a revolve
0:32.5	or under his jacket and gave me the...
0:34.9	I've heard that a thousand times.
0:36.5	I've never seen it happen in my lifetime.
0:39.3	So, do those things happen?
0:41.1	I'm sure they did.
0:42.3	But I think there's been more tales of it happening.
0:44.3	Look, the most notorious in history of boxing is the Sonny List and Ali Re-Match and Lewis.
0:49.6	And everybody's got an opinion.
0:50.8	I said, that's the, you know, that's the Kennedy assassination of boxing.
0:54.4	That's like the great question.
0:56.1	What happened there?
0:56.9	And everybody's opinion is different.
1:02.0	I'm walking around looking looking and I get up to the ring side,
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