#176 - Tris Dixon

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4.6 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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This week could truly be THE BEST ONE YET!! We are joined on the podcast by ex boxer turned journalist, podcaster (BOXING LIFE STORIES) and author TRIS DIXON on the week of the release of his latest book DAMAGE. DAMAGE chronicles the untold story of brain trauma in boxing and is a MUST READ for any boxing fan. Tris outlines his reasons for writing the book and what, in light of his investigations, he thinks the future of the sport should look like. PODCAST GOLD!!!

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0:00.0	D' Hello, welcome to pound for pound the number one boxing podcast with me Jake
0:26.2	would and him Mr Spencer Oliver oh you boo bro
0:29.4	you go you had a busy day in you yeah I've had a busy day, yeah.
0:34.0	I've had a really busy day, mate.
0:36.0	Yeah, I've been doing a little bit of talk sport,
0:38.0	as always on a Thursday.
0:39.0	Jim White and Simon Jordan, so that was good
0:41.0	and there was a big debate obviously on there today about Logan Paul which is coming up this week
0:45.8	Logan Paul versus Floyd Mayweather you know I suppose the controversy surrounding
0:51.2	YouTube is coming into the boxing world earning so much money.
0:55.2	So I was like, listen, you gave me a mad stat earlier, didn't you?
1:00.5	Logan Paul was the second highest boxer in the world last year?
1:03.6	Yeah Jake Paul I think was the second highest earner in the world last year.
1:08.2	I know it's insane mate you know you think Jake go where, you know, we started it all off, Jake Paul,
1:16.2	boxing Deji at KSI's younger brother, KSI boxing Logan Paul, you know, when they was white collar events packed, you know, but the stats there.
1:27.4	When we done them shows, Jacob, I've got the stats of like, I think there was 500 million views across their social medias on that and 65 million people that were watching it I was saying you can't deny the figures this is what I was talking about today.
1:42.0	I've done a bit of sports news on it as well. I said listen and they said well why would
1:46.4	make whatever come out of retirement risk his legacy against a guy that's 50 pounds bigger than him and I said listen Logan can actually fight to be fair to him he's not he weren't a bad fighter Logan
1:57.6	decent fight obviously not in the class of may we but of course he's not but you know what I'm like, of course he's not, but you know, what I'm saying is, why would maybe come out and risk his legacy?
2:07.6	And I said, the simple for the money, he's getting a hundred million for doing it.
2:12.2	That's why he's doing it. He's a businessman and he just sees that as an opportunity. And I said why it will work on say Skybox office. Why that will work is because Logan Paul's fans and he's got like 20 million on Instagram
2:24.8	but don't know how many YouTube followers or whatever but Logan Paul's fans will want to see
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