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Boxing Life Stories

Season 4: #36 Aaron Snowell

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Veteran trainer Aaron Snowell has worked with many Don King fighters over the years. But he is not just a King lieutenant. He grew up in Pottsville, just down the road from Muhammad Ali's Deer Lake training camp and he was around The Greatest for the best part of a decade. As a coach, who was in the corner the night Mike Tyson was stunned by Buster Dougles, and when Frankie Randall shocked Julio Cesar Chavez. He also worked with the likes of Julian Jackson, Tim Austin and Tim Witherspoon. Snowball's story is an important one on many levels, not least because he presents a very different side of Mike Tyson in the late 1980s and early 1990s from the one were are accustomed to seeing.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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He said, ain't no big guys a little used because even the discourse is important.

0:04.0

Nobody likes to eat out a dirty dish.

0:07.0

And with that thought in mind, the champ wants a clean plate.

0:11.0

Man, the champ wants, he said, the champ wants a clean plate.

0:16.0

And I hand on the plate and I finish the dishes and went back over in the gym.

0:22.0

Don't believe all the hype from Donald Trump and all of them dealt with them.

0:28.0

You know, from every big hotel in Vegas dealt with them, showtime, HBO.

0:35.0

They dealt with them all of them made money.

0:38.0

So, you know, what it is, he's just an extreme, difficult guy when it comes to the negotiating table.

0:49.0

He knows his position, he knows what he's got, what he got.

0:55.0

And he don't take a step backwards from that.

0:59.0

And he'll work day and night to get his position where it's a win-win for him.

1:04.0

And it's been like that for years.

1:08.0

Well, yeah, but that's a price you play for greatness.

1:11.0

And it's sad to see guys at that half-ranking rand of somebody I trained when he won all of those things.

1:22.0

This here, it's one of those things.

1:26.0

To see Frankie, a guy who's cheerful, meeting everybody at champion, real bright, real thing.

1:32.0

And then see him at the stage where he couldn't remember nothing.

1:36.0

I've seen it happen to mom and Ali.

1:39.0

And that it's a sad part of the tragedy of sports.

1:43.0

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

1:47.0

It happened in the ring after it tasted only good with his child's play, compared to that.

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