#282. Boxing Champion Fights Mike Tyson & London Doorman Stories - Julius Francis

Eventful Lives Podcast

Dodge Woodall

Eventful, True Crime, Risk, Interviews, Crime, Events, Entrepreneurship, Festivals, Sports, Life Story, Entrepreneur, Roger Woodall, Start Ups, Society & Culture, Military, Business

5 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Julius Francis is a British former boxer who famously fought Mike Tyson in 2000. From Tyson's UK tour to the adrenaline on fight night, Julius reveals all. He also talks about his 40-year career as a doorman and the various crimes he came across. We also talk about the truth behind that viral Boxpark Wembley incident.

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0:00.0	How did you end up fighting Mike Tyson 25 years ago?
0:03.0	I flew out here at the start of January.
0:05.0	He was out here for the whole month.
0:06.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:07.0	So he was here for 28 days before you fought on the 29th in year 2000.
0:10.0	Our paths were destined to me.
0:12.0	It was in Brixton, he was in Manchester, he was everywhere.
0:14.0	It was madness.
0:15.0	Yeah, and I knew that I could box.
0:17.0	It didn't even kind of really occurred to me that I would fight him. A 40 year career on the doors.
0:22.6	I was a kickboxer, taekwondo, boxing. I've done all of these things, so I know what I used to do in gloves.
0:28.6	Box Park, Wembley. Tell me about that time when you pummeled that kid on the right hand to shut him up.
0:34.6	Yeah, well, they're not little. Look at the size of that.
0:38.4	Have you ever been on the doors
0:40.1	and thought,
0:40.9	I could lose my life here?
0:42.4	Oh, yeah.
0:44.7	And a guy jumps out of the car
0:46.5	and he's got a handgun
0:47.8	and he's pointed with me.
0:49.1	So all I'm doing is looking down
0:50.4	the barrel of the gun.
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