Season 4: #41 Kenny Bayless

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Las Vegas referee Kenny Bayless paid his dues to get where he is. He spent years as an amateur official and then had a long apprenticeship on the Nevada State Athletic Commission before going on to become one of the world's leading referees. He was the third man in the ring the night Floyd Mayweather beat Manny Manny Pacquiao and the night Bernard Hopkins defeated Oscar De La Hoya and he was there for the worrying knockouts of Amir Khan against Canelo Alvarez, when Juan Manuel Marquez flattened Pacquaio and when Pacquiao nailed Ricky Hatton. Here, Bayless talks about the sport, the big nights and names and reveals some hidden stories from his incredible experiences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.7	So I would just find ways of getting into the fight.
0:05.0	If there was an open back door to the arena,
0:08.1	or if there was a crack wide enough for me to squeeze through,
0:12.1	I would work my way into the fight.
0:16.3	Oscars kind of doubled up.
0:18.7	And I'm thinking to myself, was that punch low,
0:22.5	or was it a good punch?
0:25.3	And so I'm counting, I've already started counting.
0:28.6	Well, I got to keep counting now.
0:31.2	So I count Oscar out.
0:35.6	After that call, and after we took Meljick Taylor
0:38.6	back to his dressing room,
0:40.6	as soon as he walked into his dressing room,
0:43.7	he threw up blood.
0:46.6	The blood that he threw up,
0:49.4	was because he had lacerations on the inside of his lip
0:53.3	and during the course of the fight, he was swallowing it.
0:57.0	He had two orbital fractures over both eyes,
1:01.4	and they said he was totally dehydrated.
1:05.5	Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories,
1:07.9	with me, Prystics.
1:09.0	What happened in the ring after that?
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