Season 3: #7 Dr Margaret Goodman

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Dr Margaret Goodman is the co-founder of the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) and one of the most-respected voices in boxing. A neurologist, she spent years working for the Nevada State Athletic Commission and has penned two boxing books, Death in Vegas, a novel looking at the behind the scenes machinations of big-time boxing, and Ringside and Training Principles, a must-have handbook guide to the sport. She's worked with countless fighters over the years, from De La Hoya to Klitschko and Terry Norris to Mike Tyson, and here she tells Tris Dixon about her incredible journey in the sport. 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	I was so frustrated and upset and went so public that those changes needed to be made.
0:06.2	I mean obviously made a ton of enemies, but I felt that it was for the benefit of the fighters.
0:11.8	So I've kind of felt a little bit like a whistleblower.
0:16.0	Oh my God, I think everyone got on television
0:18.2	and just said, this is why you don't have women here
0:20.8	because I ended up stopping the fight,
0:22.9	recommending it stop in Nevada.
0:24.6	The doctors don't stop the fight.
0:26.0	They recommended the referee.
0:27.6	So I told the referee, you know, you need to stop it.
0:30.1	And they were like, oh my God, she can't stand the sight of blood, she can't
0:33.8	stand facial swelling, and sure enough no one understood that he had this horrible
0:38.0	fracture, he ended up having surgery, he might have had multiple surgeries to repair it, but you have a lot of other people
0:47.0	there that you have to be able to convey what you're doing or why you're not doing something.
0:53.0	And so it is very much of an art.
0:57.0	Through our program, no one on our board or officer has been paid.
1:02.0	We don't get anything. I mean, we do this. No one on our board or officer has been paid.
1:02.8	We don't get anything.
1:04.2	I mean, we do this because we care.
1:06.5	And people, I've had promoters go, you gotta be kidding me.
1:09.9	Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Tristics.
1:13.3	What happened in the ring after,
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