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Boxing Life Stories

Season 4: #13 Chris Billam-Smith

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Bournemouth's British, Commonwealth and European cruiserweight champion Chris Billam-Smith has big ideas and big ambitions. Trained by Shane McGuigan after a decent if not glittering amateur career, Billam-Smith has risen quickly in the pros. He's become a Matchroom staple, twice boxing at Fight Camps, and he's already met men like Tommy McCarthy and Richard Riakporhe and he's sparred Mairis Briedis, David Haye, George Groves, Joshua Butasi, Lawrence Okolie, Daniel Dubois and many more. He also hosts his own podcast, The Perfect Athlete Podcast, has a hunger for knowledge around sport, performance and recovery and he has a dream to bring big-time boxing to Bournemouth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And then I'm just like vassin' up in the mirror, I just heard this bang, and I looked around,

0:05.6

didn't this, 19, 16, 16, 5 books on the floor, and David had dropped him,

0:11.2

and but on the way down he'd snapped his tibia and his fibula, so he'd broke his ankle,

0:16.8

like I didn't know how severe it was at that point, and I just looked at my coach,

0:21.2

who stood next to me, I just go, guess I'm in then, and we just laughed at it, and he just,

0:27.3

I was like okay, we were like, and I just remember like the atmosphere, just everyone there,

0:34.0

going, do you know, do you know, and I remember stopping the chart, I was charting with everyone,

0:38.8

and just thinking that must be such an amazing feeling, because I've always played team sports,

0:42.4

like football, hockey, I've done very few individual sports, I mean I've tried a lot of sports,

0:46.9

but like the ones I was most interested in with the team sports,

0:52.3

it doesn't matter where, like that's never been done, no one's ever boxed there, it's my hometown,

0:58.2

so I should go there as a kid, I'm not even Freddie Mills, exactly, and to have a season ticket,

1:06.5

that club when I was 12-13, one of the players on the pitch, not being able to, because I didn't

1:12.1

become a footballer, but then to be able to still have that dream, in another universe by boxing

1:19.5

on the pitch, and also the club have been great to me since I've done an evening with there,

1:25.6

just before Christmas, and things like that as well, so I'll just, and it's home.

1:32.4

Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me,

1:35.4

Kristix. What happened in the ring after testing only good with his child's play,

1:39.8

compared to that, they still have goosebumps to this day.

1:44.3

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

1:48.6

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

1:52.4

in the paper, they made me look like alcohol bomb.

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