Season 3: #34 Ryan Burnett

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Irish star Ryan Burnett was a two-belt world champion whose career was cut short through injury. A decorated amateur, his career was nearly over before it began due to irregularities over a brain scan but he wound up on the world tile path after turning pro and serving an early apprenticeship under Ricky Hatton. With Adam Booth in his corner, he made rapid progress and would win 20 of his pro fights but disaster struck against Nonito Donaire in the World Boxing Super Series. How, however, he has found a contentment in life that he could never find in 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	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.
0:13.6	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,
0:22.1	and you may get a heart attack.
0:23.9	That's where's home really, with me, Jimmy Femarewa.
0:27.4	Find it wherever you're listening to this.
0:30.4	With Brutal, because I was sort of, I was 21 years old and was thinking,
0:35.4	I need to be fat, and here I need to get going, get going.
0:37.9	And I had a doctor full of me and said, sorry, you're never going to box again.
0:42.0	So when someone, like a doctor ranger, tells you something like that, you're thinking,
0:46.9	this might be, this might be over.
0:52.5	I can remember the Commonwealth Champion, and it was great in that ring.
0:58.8	There was like a moment where I was like, oh, I've done it.
1:03.6	And then it was so much going on, and I remember getting back home,
1:08.8	or back to the hotel room with Lara, and I sat down, and they had a bed and a set,
1:16.1	another set too.
1:18.7	This isn't what I wanted.
1:19.9	It was my life, it was, I didn't have another life.
1:28.8	I didn't, I was rambling at the boxer.
1:33.1	I didn't know what it was like to go for a week without training.
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