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Boxing Life Stories

Season 4: #15 Matt Christie

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Matt Christie succeeded Boxing Life Stories host Tris Dixon as the editor of Boxing News. Here, Matt talks about his early exposure to boxing, how he was destined for the top job and how he finds life in the editor’s chair on the world’s oldest boxing publication. He also discusses the future-proofing of the brand, big nights ringside in the US and he talks about how BN adapted in the pandemic and much more besides. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And sitting down with a presumed editor or someone like that and saying that I wanted to be their boxing reporter when I grew up and I would have been

0:09.0

From memory. I don't think I would have been ten at that point

0:11.8

So I would have been about eight or nine going in and saying that

0:16.6

And I don't know if it's because they think that I'm gonna that I might be on air and then all of a sudden

0:21.0

I'm gonna start ranting and raving about what a joke the WBA

0:24.1

You might

0:26.9

Or am I telling them back?

0:29.2

These fighters been drug tested. Oh

0:34.1

It consumes you in a way that is indescribable unless you have experienced it in the way that I

0:40.4

Now I will wake up in the middle of the night and I will look at my phone instinctively not because I want to read a

0:45.4

New story or because I want to I want just what what I'm missing what's going on? What have we got to get on top of?

0:51.1

Hello, and welcome to box and life stories with me

0:54.2

Kristik's happened in the ring after

0:56.8

Tasting only good with his child's play compared to that. They still have goosebumps this day

1:03.2

Just you couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile for space, could you? I know

1:11.5

Maybe they made me look like Al Capone miss. He's gonna be your night. There's a winning and there's

1:17.6

Nothing else. Hello. Welcome back to box and life stories. I'm Tristan and my guest this week is my successor at

1:24.4

Boxing News Matt Christie

1:26.6

Previous in a previous episode. I've interviewed my predecessor at Boxing News Claude Abrams

1:31.8

And now here is the brilliant Matt Christie. I think Matt's doing it and outstanding job at Boxing News

1:37.9

He's really taken the magazine forward from from my time there at the magazine and he remains not just

1:44.7

Must read met or a must read writer as shown with his recent or relatively recent

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