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🗓️ 24 January 2010
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Kirsty Young's castaway is the boxing promoter Frank Warren.
He has managed and promoted some of the biggest names in the sport, including Joe Calzaghe, Prince Naseem Hamed, Ricky Hatton and the Olympic medal winner Amir Khan.
Over the past three decades he has lost fortunes and remade them, survived an assassination attempt and even a run-in with Mike Tyson. Boxing has been good to him, he says, but now he says he wants to find something that will nourish his soul too.
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1:14.0 | My castaway this week is the boxing promoter Frank Warren. |
1:17.7 | Over the last 30 years, he has changed the face of the sport and worked with the biggest names in it. |
1:20.1 | Among them, Mike Tyson, Joe Kalsaghi, Prince Nassim Ahmed, |
1:23.9 | Ricky Hatton, and Olympic medal winner Amir Khan. |
1:27.3 | If he were in the ring ring rather than out of it, |
1:30.1 | his nickname might be Frank the Phoenix Warren. He has lost fortunes and remade them, |
1:35.6 | survived an assassination attempt, and even a run-in with Mike Tyson. Never a professional boxer |
1:41.8 | himself. He is nonetheless always willing to defend his turf. |
1:46.0 | When I was a kid, he says, I came from a pretty rough area, |
1:49.4 | and so there were a few fights. |
1:51.5 | I'd never back down from anyone, rightly or wrongly. |
1:55.2 | I've been that way in boxing. |
1:57.0 | I fight my corner. |
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