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Boxing Life Stories

Season 4: #4 Arv Mittoo

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Arv Mittoo is a Birmingham journeyman who notched a staggering 100 fights through his pro career. He boxed the likes of Ashley Theophane, Gary Woolcombe, Scott Haywood, Lee Meager and Tunde Ajayi in compiling his 10-85-5 record. Here, he talks extensively about life on the road, the subculture of British boxing’s show savers and much more in between. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Under blindsided of the referee, if a person hit me, I'd grab his hand and the referee couldn't see and

0:06.8

That would make things hard for him to hit me

0:09.5

All that's got to be experienced to help him to become a bit of fighter doing things like that messing him around

0:15.2

surely sure in the sense of um

0:18.1

Fighting people if I can grab his arm and tie him up and some surely that's gonna give him a bit of experience to become a better fighter

0:25.9

I could have gone on to after that und... if I had had over 100 fights

0:31.2

I would have tried my best to go out to 200 fights

0:34.8

And you know what, Triss, what I'm gonna get out of it keep fighting

0:38.7

I'm just gonna get the LB tattoo of me and I'm not gonna win any for I'm just gonna be a journey man

0:43.8

I'm gonna get back to it and then they're just gonna use me as an opponent

0:48.9

I used to book cars on one afternoon. I went there to nubbies gym in the afternoon

0:53.1

He says, have you got Ike's on you off? I said, yeah, why?

0:56.0

So there's a fight for you. I said, okay, so it was like about

1:02.0

Training session to train and I just had an all-tea to go and fight

1:05.8

Before I went with him there to London to fight and I thought yeah, that's long point

1:12.6

Hello and welcome to box in life stories with me

1:15.7

Tristics happened in the ring after

1:17.7

He faced an only good with his child's play compared to that. Instead of going to this day

1:24.4

You couldn't even take the tears from his eyes or the smile for space, could you? I know

1:32.9

Maybe they made me look like Alcompawn. This is gonna be your night. There's a winning and there's

1:39.0

Nothing else

1:40.2

Hello, welcome back to box in life stories with me Tristics and it's been a brilliant week

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