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Boxing Life Stories

Season 4: #18 Jackie Kallen

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Jackie Kallen has been involved with boxing for almost 50 years. She cut her teeth as an entertainment journalist interviewing the likes of Frank Sinatra, The Rolling Stones and the Beatles and then found herself in the basement of a Detroit Rec Center covering boxing. She became a publicist for the famous Kronk Gym, working closely with Tommy Hearns through his glory years and beyond, and wound up managing James Toney and a successful stable of fighters in subsequent years. Now, a motivational speak with a decorated career, she worked on The Contender TV series with Sylvester Stallone and Sugar Ray Leonard and a movie about her life was made with Meg Ryan in the lead role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A group of my friends were having a party at one of their homes and in Mox McDagger and I mean what could be more

0:07.0

Amazing to some suburban Detroit teens then to be dancing and laughing and party with Mick Dagger. It was pretty amazing

0:18.1

He's still one of my best friends in the world. We talked daily and even when I'm here and he's in Detroit. We talked

0:25.7

He's just somebody that's always going to be a key person in my life because he really

0:33.7

Launched my career by allowing me to be his publicist all these years

0:40.5

No, the only time that happened where I even sort of thought that was when James and I parted after six years

0:49.7

His contract was up and he went with someone else and I was crushed. I was so

0:55.9

I was so upset because I thought we'd done such a brilliant job together that we were gonna stay together

1:02.0

First hole career

1:03.8

Hello, and welcome to box and life stories with me

1:06.9

Christy

1:07.4

What happened in the ring after that?

1:09.4

I think only good was his child's play compared to that. Still they've moved on to this day

1:16.2

You couldn't take the tears for his eyes or the smile for his face, could you?

1:20.0

I know

1:24.2

Maybe they made me look like alcohol bomb. This is gonna be your night. There's a wedding and there's

1:30.2

Nothing else. Hello. Welcome back to box and life stories

1:33.7

I'm delighted to say my guest this week is the one of a kind

1:37.4

Jackie Callan. It's about time. I think I hope that it's gonna be it won't be long before we stop using the word pioneer

1:44.3

With women's boxing because there are now so many important ladies that involved in the game

1:50.0

But Jackie in many ways was an actual pioneer and you'll hear her story here from her her origins as a

1:57.6

Entertainment journalist and reporter through to her star at the Cronk as a publicist working with the likes of

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