Season 3: #5 Ronnie Davies

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Ronnie Davies is best-known for his work as trainer to Chris Eubank. The popular Brighton coach travelled the world with the eccentric British great and forged a friendship that remains to this day. Davies was also involved in the career of Eubank Jr but he's worked with dozens of other fighters from Scott Welch to Henry Castle and Neil Linford to Tony Oakey. He was also a former Southern Area champion who called it a day as a pro aged just 24. Here, he recounts highs, lows and regrets and his time on board the wonderful Eubank roller coaster – including tales of cliff-jumping, fight-week bungee jumps and much more. 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 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 Famire, 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 of Burmesemese, when Burmese it was rough.
0:13.7	I remember thinking, none of the boys are going to fancy me.
0:16.5	Gourd-Dum Barotti and a chicken curry.
0:19.0	You are full, you are connected to your culture, and you may get a heart attack.
0:23.9	That's Where's Home Really, with me Jimmy Famera.
0:27.4	Find it wherever you're listening to this.
0:30.3	Loads of people know what I've achieved, but a lot of people don't. Yeah. I don't know what I've achieved, because a lot of people don't.
0:33.0	I don't know what I've achieved as a boxer.
0:36.0	I think I've just gone along and trained Chris U Bank.
0:38.0	I haven't, I've had loads of good fighters.
0:40.0	You know that, you go back from when I was, you you know I had a gin full of good fighters
0:45.8	people don't believe this I box him on the Monday at Hammersmith after a day's work
0:57.7	got up winter work and a box again on the Sunday, the following Sunday, for a white barret down in Brighton, two fights in five days, I'd, And the second one was really, well the first one
1:04.9	it's hard, because he was good MacNeil, but I box Peter Ritchie from Bristol.
1:09.1	He was an absolute animal, or hard as now as he was.
1:12.1	I didn't know. Junior wouldn't speak but I knew
1:20.1	me and senior were very close we we knew each other's minds, but you couldn't, I could never get close to junior,
1:26.0	because he wouldn't speak to you. He didn't speak to anyone.
1:30.0	No, what's he want to do? That's good business, isn't it? What's you want to do that for?
1:34.0	You had Tony, you had none, you had loads of top fighters.
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