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Boxing Life Stories

Season 4: #27 Dave Harris

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

For too long, fighters have needed to have the option of high-level care available to them when they retire. Dave Harris has a dream. He's started the Ringside Charitable Trust and wants to build a retirement home for damaged fighters who have nowhere else to turn. But he's doing more than that.  He's raising awareness about the troubles of life after boxing, he's started a dedicated call line for retired fighters to use to talk about the issues they face and he's trying to raise money to help those who have given us so much enjoyment over the years a brighter future when the bell tolls on their careers for a final time.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm not interested in having some sort of run-of-the-mill home for these boxes.

0:07.6

They're going to have a place where they're going to be able to be kept busy with doing crafts

0:14.2

and all sorts of other little bits and pieces where they can see their films, where they can sit

0:19.6

and talk to either their carers or the other boxes that live in the home or have respite care in

0:27.2

the home. There will be single-on nights and things like that. This is going to be state-of-the-art.

0:35.7

The problem for them is many of them are so well known and they find it difficult. They say things

0:44.2

like nobody need to know about this, do they? Every month he would send a check for £5.

0:56.0

And he wrote a letter to Paul Fair where they're saying, I'm sorry, it's not more than this.

1:01.6

I've only got my pension but I care. I've been in boxing all my life and I just feel that I know

1:11.2

it's only £5, but I would like you to have it every month.

1:16.0

Hello and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Christix.

1:19.5

What happened in the ring after facing only good with his child's play compared to that?

1:24.1

Still a close bond to his day.

1:27.6

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

1:32.3

I know.

1:36.3

And the baby didn't make me look like Al Capone.

1:38.3

This is going to be your night.

1:39.7

There's a winning and there's nothing else.

1:44.4

Hello and welcome back to Boxing Life Stories. My guest this week is the wonderful Dave Harris.

1:49.2

Dave is the man behind the ringside charitable trust or what you've also heard as ringside

1:55.8

rest and care. Dave's dream is to build and create a rest home or a nursing home for retired

2:04.4

fighters over the last few years. You might have been well familiar with the different things he's

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