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Boxing Life Stories

Season 3: #49 Kid Galahad

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

IBF featherweight champion Kid Galahad talks about his career in boxing and life out of the ring. He discusses his recent world title win over Jazza Dickens and his future aspirations but he also talks about his family move from Doha to Liverpool when he was just four. There, his brothers were enticed in to a life of crime but when he moved to Sheffield he had a chance meeting with Prince Naseem Hamed and was directed to the famed Ingle Gym. He didn't look back. Here, he talks about his near two decades at the gym, the controversies he's faced, the highs, the setbacks, some incredible sparring stories in the UK and the US and being part of the Ingle dynasty.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, real talk. Some people think that Costa Express machines do coffee machine coffee.

0:05.5

Get real. Costa Express is the real deal. It's real Costa coffee, made with real beans and real

0:12.5

fresh milk. And with over 13,000 machines nationwide, it's real convenient too. So it's real unfair

0:19.4

to think that our coffee machines do the instant stuff. Because at Costa Express, we do real coffee

0:25.0

instantly. Costa Express, it's coffee machine coffee, made a little better.

0:30.0

What the thing was, when we were kids, we didn't really know no one who was like a doctor or a dentist

0:37.4

or a professional or anything. You know, the only people, we know professional drug dealers

0:41.8

or professional, you know, gangsters or robbers or that was it. I said, oh, and I just started

0:49.1

boxing. I said, I want to be a champion like you, what have I got to do? It goes, if you want to be

0:53.2

a champion like me, because you need to go and find this guy called Brendan Ingle. He's got a

0:56.8

gym in St. Thomas' Club in Wienkebank. He goes, if you go and get it, if you find him, he goes,

1:01.6

he'll make you into a champion. So I went home, ran, I said, oh, mom, and I want to look for this gym.

1:08.0

We've got to want you. Your opportunity is going to come. But when the opportunity comes,

1:12.5

you've got to be more than ready. Because when you're doing this every single day, your time's going to come.

1:18.4

Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Chris Dix. What happened in the ring after

1:24.1

he faced an only good with his child's play compared to that one? Still a close punch to this day.

1:31.2

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

1:35.3

I know. I didn't expect you to meet me. He said, well, let me throw you in the back. And the

1:39.5

pavement made me look like alcohol porn. The issue's going to be your night.

1:43.0

Is winning. And there's nothing else.

1:47.9

So hello, welcome back to Boxing Life Stories. I'm Tristixon. And this week I've been up in

1:53.1

Sheffield where I've been spending time with current IBF featherweight champion Kid Gala had.

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