Season 4: #40 Paul Spadafora

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Former world IBF lightweight champion Paul Spadafora reflects on his incredible life story, through a traumatic childhood, several overdoses, stints in prison, being shot, other shootings, stabbings and much more in between. He talks about 'that' Floyd Mayweather spar, how his life changed winning the world title and his search for redemption as he prepares his son Geno for a career in the hardest sport of all. This is simply unmissable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know what I look at it like? Think about this like beyond boxing. Well, but I can relate to
0:05.7	boxing because I love it, you know what I mean? But I can more so relate to the kids that are coming
0:12.1	in the gym that ain't got a mother or father that ain't got structure that ain't that don't have
0:22.2	money. You know what I'm saying? I can relate to that. I was in prison, right? And this dude goes like
0:33.0	this. He said, man, he looked at me and he said, he said, I don't know how you don't kill yourself.
0:41.7	If it felt amazing, because listen, my whole life changed overnight. I swear to you on my life.
0:52.6	Now the people that don't necessarily like me, now they love me. Now they're not the girls that
1:02.6	are like, you know, you know, you look good, but you ain't going to money. Now they love me. You
1:09.1	know what I mean? The friends are coming everywhere. Hello and welcome to Boxing Life Stories
1:14.8	with me, Prystix. What happened in the ring after that? He tasted only good with his child's
1:19.6	play compared to that. Still they've caused fun to this day. You couldn't take the tears for his
1:26.6	eyes or the smile for his face, could you? I know. He's a boy and a baby and maybe look at
1:34.7	how he's going to be your night. He's winning and there's nothing else.
1:40.5	Hello and welcome back to Boxing Life Stories. This week I'm joined by the Pittsburgh kid
1:45.3	Paul Spadafore. Although actually I might be starting off with an error there. You'll learn in
1:50.8	this podcast what PK stands for and it might well not be Pittsburgh kid. But Paul is the former
1:56.9	IVF lightweight champion of the world and quite frankly, he has one of the most explosive stories
2:02.5	in boxing. One that includes a lifetime of trauma, monumental lows and a fight for redemption
2:08.5	that is up there among the best that I have heard in all of sports and not just in boxing.
2:15.6	I thought this was absolutely spell binding. When people ask me or people say I wish you could
2:22.6	go back in time and do a Boxing Life Stories with Johnny Tapia, I think this is about as close as
2:28.8	you'll get to Johnny Tapia. This was phenomenal. I can't say enough things about it really and
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