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Boxing Life Stories

Season 3: #37 Glyn Rhodes

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

In one of the most moving Boxing Life Stories I've done, Sheffield ex-fighter and now trainer, manager and promoter Glyn Rhodes MBE recalls the highs and lows of his time in the sport. Trained by Brendan Ingle, he talks of life as 'Showboat' Rhodes, a frustrating journeyman who should have done more in his career but also his time outside the ropes, with particular attention on the traumatic night his friend and fighter Scott Westgarth lost his life after a fight he won. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.8

Well, I tried to do it and do some assault, but I would never do it because I felt stupid.

0:38.1

He tried, he said you've got to do some assault. He couldn't break down those walls

0:41.1

then for you. No way. I went and did no evidence. Anyway, in this town of missing the nursery rhyme

0:46.4

or doing a roly-poly or doing that, as you said, but then I'm not doing that. It's just stupid

0:50.7

really, but that's what kind of kid I wear. I used to love it. I used to, but sometimes used to

0:59.3

be more, I used to consider it more on showing off and trying to humiliate the other kid rather than

1:06.5

winning. That's what some of the reports say, isn't it? If I just knuckle down and pipe it in

1:11.2

with all the stupidness and just got on with it, I could have achieved so much more.

1:15.5

I can't say I was thinking anything, but I was shocked while I was seeing.

1:24.9

Oh, I don't know. I've never seen anything like that in the rhyme.

1:30.6

Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me,

1:33.6

Tristics. What happened in the ring after placing only good with his child's play

1:38.4

compared to that? Still, they've caused fun to this day.

1:42.5

Just you couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile of his face, couldn't you?

1:46.8

I know.

1:47.4

I shouldn't have beaten me. He said, well, let's bow you in the back.

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