#251 Victor Conte

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

WE ARE BACK!!! This week, I'm delighted to have the colourful and controversial Victor Conte on the podcast.

Conte works with many of the leading fighters in the world, including Terence Crawford, Bam Rodriguez, Devin Haney, Joshua Buatsi and he's recently linked up with Chris Eubank Jnr.

Conte is very much an anti-doping advocate today, but he shot to infamy as the mastermind of the BALCO scandal in 2002, which saw him jailed for four months.

Subsequently, much has been said and written about Conte, including the Netflix Untold special, Hall of Shame, but here he has his say on what he has done, what he is doing, his portrayal in the media, his detractors, his regrets, and PEDs in the sport of boxing.

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0:00.0	it was all about corruption. So I made a decision to be a part of it, but all I can say is they
0:07.5	presented this as, here's this Frankenstein, here's this, you know, Saddam Hussein of sport.
0:14.1	One, they called me the Adolf Hitler of sport who was attempting to create a new race of athletes.
0:19.7	I mean, all this and crazy stuff, right?
0:22.3	But this was the culture. This is what the overwhelming majority were doing. Let me conclude by
0:29.6	saying, the cherry on the top, since 2010 until now, over the last 14 years, we have trained and we have done blood testing and
0:40.2	providing supplementation programs for 31 world champions. So I have a pretty ugly and, you know,
0:50.8	a decade of headlines calling me all sorts of bad names, but I don't let that
0:55.9	affect my opinion of myself. So am I glad that I have been able to help 31 world champions
1:03.7	and do what I can to participate and be a part of the anti-doping movement that exists in boxing.
1:12.2	Yes.
1:13.2	So do I think that I will ever be recognized for what I've done?
1:17.5	Maybe not.
1:19.2	Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Tristic.
1:22.5	What happened in the ring after Tyson only was Charles play compared to that?
1:27.3	Just be. He did post pong to this day.
1:30.7	You couldn't take the tears from his eyes
1:33.6	or the smile off his face, couldn't you?
1:35.4	I know.
1:35.8	I didn't get him bit, bit, me.
1:37.6	He said, well, that boy in the back.
1:39.2	And the paper, they made me look like Al Capone.
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