Season5: #35 Evan Korn

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Usually, Evan Korn is the man teeing up the interviews. The Top Rank publicist talks here about his journey into the promotional powerhouse from fight fan, to sports journalist to finally making the move out to Las Vegas.

Korn, an endurance runner in his spare time, discusses trying to break into the business, the changing face of boxing journalism, his job interview with Bob Arum, working on a night when there's a tragedy in the ring, his time with superstars like Tyson Fury, Terence Crawford and Shakur Stevenson, his future and 'the other side of the street' in boxing terms.

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0:00.0	I'm like, I can't believe they're, I can't believe they're bringing me into meet this guy.
0:06.6	Maybe I have a chance at this job.
0:07.9	That's when I thought, okay, I might have a chance.
0:11.9	I was a sports journalist for many years after college, about six years.
0:17.4	I was just one of these guys.
0:18.7	I wrote for a lot of boxing websites for free, and then when I was in college, I was just
0:22.8	some young jerk off with stupid opinions and didn't really know what he was talking
0:27.7	about, but you sort of shudder when you read some of your old stuff, but all that is learning
0:34.6	experiences, right?
0:38.4	You learn from your mistakes and you mature.
0:42.1	And I think in the ring is everything what it takes.
0:43.6	I think outside of the ring, he's got to personality that I think would one day lend
0:48.8	this up to being that, you know, a crossover major superstar.
0:53.5	He's got everything you want.
0:56.6	Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Chris Dix.
1:00.0	What happened in the ring after he tasted only good with his child's play compared to that?
1:04.6	Still they've caused fun to this day.
1:06.2	You couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile of his face, couldn't you?
1:12.6	I know.
1:13.6	He's been beating me.
1:14.8	He said, well, it's four years back and the baby didn't make me look like alcohol porn.
1:18.8	This is going to be your night.
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