Season 4: #16 Barry Hunter

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Barry Hunter has become one of the go-to trainers in the USA. After his noteworthy work with the Peterson brothers, who he trained from their childhoods until their career twilights, he's worked with a who's who of top-tier talent including Adrien Broner, Tony Thompson, Raushee Warren and Isaac Dogboe. As part of the US amateur set-up, he's also worked with Shakur Stevenson, Ricardo Williams, Errol Spence and countless others. Here, he talks about PEDs in the sport, playing the drums, the real-life Broner, his relationship with Virgil Hunter (no relation), growing up hard and much more besides. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know before you know, I actually went to a gym setting doing this. I was doing it in the streets
0:05.7	You know, I mean if even if a kid had a dispute or something, you know, I make a throw the gloves on and you know
0:11.4	We're gonna get it out the way right here right now, you know, man
0:15.3	You don't have to wait on the referee. You don't have to wait on the doctor
0:18.8	You don't have the wait on the fighters to submit you can get up there if you see something if you feel something
0:26.3	Despite of what the crowd gonna say or what people would say after the fact you have to do what's best for your fighter
0:33.3	You know that you think it's best for the fighter. So you get up and you stop it
0:38.7	You stop it
0:41.8	When he said that of course it took me for a loop
0:45.0	I'm setting down on what to do and I cry my eyes out and I call home call my mom
0:51.4	Yeah, I'm talking about I'm I'm boo-hoo, man, and
0:55.3	still I got a fine away
0:57.8	to
0:59.8	Get myself together because we still got to perform. Tony was gonna fight at the playboy mansion
1:05.5	Hello, and welcome to box and life stories with me
1:08.5	Tristics what happened in the ring after
1:11.0	Tyson only good with his child's play compared to that. Instead of who's coming to this day
1:17.4	Just you couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile face could you I know
1:25.4	And a baby they made me look like alcohol bomb. This is gonna be your night. It's winning and it's
1:31.8	Nothing else
1:33.8	Hello, and welcome back to box and life stories this week
1:36.6	I've been in Washington DC where I've been speaking to top trainer Barry Hunter
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