#252 Jesse Hart

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In a hugely emotional podcast, light-heavyweight contender Jesse Hart talks about growing up in Philadelphia, as the son of local heavy-hitting legend Eugene "Cyclone" Hart, his road to becoming a top-ranked fighter, the current light-heavyweight landscape and his role in it – including the likes of Artur Beterbiev, Dmitry Bivol, David Benavidez – and others, and his hopes for the future.

But the podcast gets heavy as Jesse breaks down over the senseless murder of his brother in 2010, something he he still trying and struggling to comes to terms with, proving he is every inch as much a fighter out of the ring as he is inside it.

I also talked to Jesse for this recent piece on grief in boxing https://www.boxingscene.com/boxing-grief-how-sport-saves-lost-souls--186853

Transcript

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0:00.0	And not saying that, you know, other fighters is not supposed to be there, but this is what we come from. This is what we come from. I come from boxing. I come from a fighter that was a gut puncher. I come from that. My left hook supposed to be deadly because my dad left hook was deadly. My body has no miles on it, for real, for real, because I've trained my body for certain things.
0:24.3	My dad, I've really trained.
0:26.2	So, in the embryos, there's not a lot of miles on his body.
0:31.0	I live clean.
0:33.6	Yeah, so it's not a lot of miles on his body.
0:35.8	It's just not.
0:37.0	I believe I can be whoever.
0:39.3	If you put me in there.
0:40.6	When he, with David Benavides, I said, come on, let's go.
0:47.6	I'm just really inside.
0:49.9	I've really hurt about that subject, about that situation.
0:53.2	I'm still in all hurt.
0:56.1	And I think it's been 14 years since 2010.
1:01.3	And I'm still hurt.
1:04.0	Still, it still ain't grew away.
1:06.9	I still mourn that death.
1:08.3	I still mourn that loss.
1:09.8	Still cry about it. Like I just did, I'm in historical. I still mourn that loss. I still cry about it like I just did.
1:12.8	I mean, I'm historical.
1:15.1	Talking about that situation still.
1:20.3	That subject is really really a bad subject for myself.
1:25.5	I try every day to get over that.
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