Season2: #30 Billy Schwer

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Billy Schwer was a world class lightweight who fought the likes of Rafael Ruelas, Stevie Johnston, Colin Dunne and many more. In all, he boxed 45 times as a professional, eventually winning the IBO title at light-welterweight. In an intimate interview, he talks about the importance of that title, the big nights, headlining in Las Vegas, working with Hall of Fame promoter Mickey Duff, the disappointments and how he spectacularly came off the rails in retirement. Now a motivational speaker who has found his happy place in life, he's an inspiration, a man who hit rock bottom and contemplated suicide who now wants to live to be 130 years old.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Tristics.
0:03.8	What happened in the ring after, guys and only good, was Charles Flake compared to that one.
0:08.4	I still got poospong to this day.
0:09.7	You couldn't take the tears from his eyes or smile off his face, could you?
0:16.5	I know.
0:17.5	I couldn't be bitten me.
0:18.5	He said, well, that boy in the back.
0:20.5	And the paper they made me look like Al Cap component. This is going to be your life.
0:24.0	There's winning and there's nothing else.
0:28.0	Hello and welcome to Boxing Life stories with me Trist Dixon.
0:32.0	Thrilled to say my guests this week is
0:34.0	none other than former lightweight and light world-to-weight champion Billy
0:38.0	Schwear. Billy has been around the block he's been he's experienced so much in his life he's just turned 51 last
0:44.7	week you can see from my social media posts on Instagram and Twitter that he's a very
0:50.3	very fit 51 with that 10 muscle up video.
0:54.6	Billy is just not just physically fit, mentally and psychologically he is as sharp as
1:00.3	attack and we talk a lot about that and how he's come out of the sport
1:04.1	seemingly unscathed and how he's so positive and how he's I would like to say
1:10.3	maintain that mindset but it's how he adopted that mindset because as you all
1:14.4	here in this podcast there was a long period of time where he didn't have that
1:19.2	positivity where he didn't have that mindset and he did struggle to get a handle on things.
1:24.6	It was great to speak to Billy.
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