Season 3: #35 Curtis Woodhouse
Boxing Life Stories
Tris Dixon
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 109 minutes
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| 0:40.0 | And I got out, I remember saying to Dave, like, who's that? They said, oh, I got that |
| 0:44.4 | standing old thought. I said, he's amazing. And he was like, yeah, he's a good fighter's |
| 0:48.3 | thought, but he said, we're just having a few problems with his license at the minute. |
| 0:51.8 | And the board are trying to take his license off him, so he's not going to fight in 18 months. |
| 0:56.4 | And I just remember thinking, what? He's not wanting 18 months. I'm like, Jesus, |
| 1:04.8 | I was like, who's he being fighting? Like Godzilla. |
| 1:10.8 | Even if I'd have walked away from boxing, I wouldn't have gone back to football. Football was |
| 1:14.5 | done for me, really. That journey was over. It was probably over at 22. And I just dragged it out |
| 1:20.8 | the last few years, but that that that one was done. And I was the, I was the downfall of my |
| 1:26.8 | own career in football, but I'm not living like not, you know, I just abused the game and abused |
| 1:33.4 | myself. So, so that journey was over. And I always knew whether I'd box for the British title, |
| 1:40.8 | I knew I'd beat them. I just knew it. I just knew I would. I knew that it takes |
| 1:46.6 | something superhuman to stop me that light. Because I just, I don't know, I'm a big believer in |
| 1:52.4 | fate. And I felt like my whole career, my whole life, football and everything was leading to this |
| 1:58.1 | one moment. Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Kristix. What happened in the ring |
| 2:03.8 | after it's taken only good with his child's play compared to that? Still they've caused fun to this day. |
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