Season 4: #17 Murad Muhammad

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Enigmatic promoter Murad Muhammad has worked with the likes of Muhammad Ali, prisoner James Scott, Matthew Saad Muhammad, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Roy Jones and Manny Pacquiao. As well as being around some of the biggest names in the sport, he's had personal friendships with some of the major players in TV, including Disney CEO Bob Iger, and he recounts some of the relationships and deals he's been involved with and been a part of over the years. Muhammad, who resides in New Jersey, has stories about Don King and many other boxing movers and shakers and insists that as far as promoters go, he, Murad Muhammad, "is the greatest of all times." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It wasn't meant for me. It's like the age of said don't do this fight. This is a wrong fight for Ollie.
0:09.2	I said, who are you? I'm Howard Cosell. And that's how I met Howard Cosell.
0:15.6	And we were close but he would not come to that prison.
0:20.4	My Tyson said he didn't want to come back to the ring.
0:24.4	I helped make my Tyson richer.
0:27.7	Hello and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Chris Tix.
0:31.2	What happened in the ring after Tyson only got his child's play compared to that?
0:35.8	Instead it was fun to this day.
0:39.6	You couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile for space, couldn't you?
0:44.0	I know.
0:47.8	And the pavement made me look like Al Capone.
0:50.0	Missy's going to be your knight.
0:51.4	His winning and his nothing else.
0:55.4	Hello, welcome back to Boxing Life Stories with me, Tristix and delighted to say this week I have
1:00.5	been with the enigmatic, the brilliant Murad Muhammad. Murad was one of the top promoters in
1:09.2	the sport back in the day. Through the late 70s he really had the light heavyweight division
1:14.4	sewn up. And he was one of the guys that sort of shaped the sport culturally outside the ropes.
1:20.3	He was close friends with Muhammad Ali and he had a hand in the likes of Eddie Mustafa,
1:25.3	Muhammad Dwight Muhammad, Kaui and Matthew Saab Muhammad, formerly Eddie Gregory,
1:30.8	Dwight Braxton and Matthew Franklin, converting to Islam.
1:35.5	He's also worked with Roy Jones and Manny Pacquiao. So some of the huge names of the sport
1:40.8	and he is an incredible storyteller. I was thoroughly entertained by this conversation.
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