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Boxing Life Stories

Season 4: #23 Kash Farooq

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Kash Farooq was 16-1 and tipped for stardom until changes appeared on his brainscan at the end of 2021. The Scottish bantamweight prodigy had a bat fanclub in the sport, was promoted by Matchroom and shared a Fight of the Year contender with Lee McGregor. There was then due to be a big fight on a Devin Haney bill in Las Vegas, a return with McGregor and then possibly a world title fight but all of those plans were sadly derailed. Here, Farooq talks about his decision to retire, what was behind his call, his disappointment but also his hopes for a long future with his health intact.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And I've got mixed emotions about it.

0:02.8

It's part of me thinks I've helped take your dream away.

0:06.4

And then, but there's also part of me thinking,

0:08.4

oh, well, here's a guy who now is going to have,

0:11.2

he's going to be able to return and say,

0:12.9

I've got my health for a far longer period of time.

0:18.1

I know what you guys, you can't, you can't, you can't,

0:21.0

the way we're speaking, you can't speak to a player like that.

0:23.7

You know the way we're speaking to you,

0:25.2

and you cannot, I think the player you'll put

0:28.3

into the fire, I'm going to keep myself still

0:32.0

and bogged in bogs, and that's the plan for me.

0:34.2

I still have a passion for it.

0:35.3

It's no, at the beginning when I happened in December,

0:37.6

I was like, I was fed up with bogs,

0:39.1

and I'm going to be anywhere near bogs and any gyms,

0:41.3

and nothing like that.

0:42.8

And, but, you know, you're eventually over

0:45.2

and you get bogs and drags you back in.

0:48.0

Hello, and welcome to bogs and life stories with me,

0:50.9

critics. What happened in the ring after it started only

0:54.1

with his child's play compared to that?

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