Season 3: #8 Paul Smith
Boxing Life Stories
Tris Dixon
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 142 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We had that relationship where I remember he done me with a body shot and he nailed me with a perfect left tooth to the body and I've stood back and nodded it and I went good shot and as I went to say shot it and I just felt like someone just stuck a knife in the side of me as it does. |
| 0:15.0 | I knew on the night I knew as soon as the bell went I'd done enough. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm watching a bar, I think, you silly bastard, because I had my hands up and I was genuinely thinking |
| 0:24.4 | they're gonna score it correctly and they're gonna give me it and I'm gonna I think I've done enough. |
| 0:28.3 | I know I've done enough and no looking at him, he looks a beaten man. I got the better of him. I gave it me all and I've done it and I've won it and I'm World Champion. |
| 0:36.3 | I remember just I was visualizing the belt for months and months and months before for years that as I've done, as I say, |
| 0:41.8 | where things were I was a kid I'm thinking I've got this I've got this and they led the |
| 0:45.2 | scores out I just remember thinking you bastards and I went there to win I went there thinking |
| 0:51.1 | I could win but I knew for the fact that the only way I'm going to win is if I nail them and I felt like a good nail them I've seen them go down before and that was enough for me listen. I've seen the boomb fight I've seen them get knocked down I've seen them get ate. I know I can ate them I've just got a nail them. I'm just going to land. Remember landing a belt a shot, |
| 1:04.8 | good right arm, right on the chain. |
| 1:06.4 | I think just come back and it were about three or four. |
| 1:08.3 | You sort of lose everything, even though you haven't really lost anything. |
| 1:14.0 | You lose your identity, you're not a boxer no more. |
| 1:16.5 | And you've been a boxer since you were nine years of age. |
| 1:18.3 | And then people are like, what are you doing now? |
| 1:20.5 | What are you up to now? |
| 1:21.5 | You know what, it's like, well, I'm doing the same thing I was doing five years ago. I'm just being myself going to do the school one going to sit with my brothers and have a coffee and going to see me my dad I'm going to just go to gym and have a son or a steam or the jacuzzi or a half an hour on the bike or something. |
| 1:37.3 | But you sort of lose the identity of who you are and then like depression. I didn't know what |
| 1:41.9 | depression was so I retired and when it |
| 1:44.2 | happened to sort of realize that may have I did a little bit when I was fighting when I |
| 1:48.0 | broke my hands after the girls fight but you just sort of don't admit it to |
| 1:51.5 | yourself because at the time everything's got to be fine |
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