#256 Michael Moorer

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Former light-heavyweight and heavyweight champion Michael Moorer talks to Tris Dixon about his huge nights in the ring, against the likes of Evander Holyfield and George Foreman, but is also open about his struggles away from the ring. He talks about how tough life can be for a fighter away when he is not fighting, whether he is an active boxer suffering from the sport's politics or life after the final bell.

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0:00.0	Oh yeah, Emmanuel is like a father figure to everybody he meets as boxers.
0:09.9	He's more of a father figure where he cares and he's concerned about the person you are.
0:26.6	He wants you to be the best person you can be, the best fighter you can be.
0:32.6	If society knew and understood the way that these fighters are out here struggling,
0:44.7	there's a ton of them.
0:47.9	They don't have a place to stay.
0:50.1	I'm one of them.
0:51.2	I became homeless.
0:53.5	I didn't have money for food.
0:58.0	It was that Michael Moore maybe didn't have the drive that he once had
1:05.0	because he knew maybe he knew what was going on behind closed doors.
1:12.9	Hello and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Tristix.
1:16.4	What happened in the ring after Tyson Olika?
1:19.2	Was Charles playing better to that?
1:21.0	They still have postponed to this day.
1:24.5	You couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile off his face, couldn't you?
1:29.1	I know.
1:29.7	I shouldn't have bitten me.
1:31.3	He said, well, that boy him back.
1:32.9	And the paper they made me look like Al Capone.
1:35.1	This he's going to beat you all night.
1:36.6	He's winning and is nothing else.
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