Season 5: #11 Sam Sexton

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Former British heavyweight champion Sam Sexton had a successful career that ran from 2005-2018 and saw him finish with 24 wins with four losses.

Here, Sexton talks about fighting the likes of David Price, Hughie Fury, Derek Chisora and Martin Rogan, and working in camp with Matt Skelton, Wladimir Klitschko and many more.

He talks about the grief he felt after the loss of his mother, PEDs in the heavyweight division, the damage Klitschko did to him in Austria, meeting Arnold Schwarzenegger, early sparring sessions with Herbie Hide and Jon Thaxton and coping with the loss of identity and the buzz of fighting in retirement.

This is great stuff from Sam.

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0:00.0	And that beat me up a lot, you know, again never heard me even John Faxson.
0:05.0	And you know, they beat the shit at me most days.
0:09.0	But gradually I kind of progressed and I kept going and I think he saw that, you know,
0:13.0	and this kid's not giving up, he's not going to stop coming even who's getting beat up every day.
0:20.0	I'm not going to lie, I'm scared, yeah.
0:24.0	But then I just always thought, you know, in my head I never really cared for anyone.
0:29.0	And I definitely wouldn't show anyone that I cared about him, do you know what I mean?
0:34.0	That's exactly what it is.
0:36.0	And I mean, as I've said before, it's like adrenaline, excitement, fear, all in one place.
0:42.0	He's a drugloat, no other, do you know what I mean?
0:44.0	He's just, you go in there and you just can't describe the feeling.
0:50.0	And I said, this is going to end now.
0:52.0	I need to go and see someone about this anger.
0:54.0	And I went for anger management and they just sort of gave me some ways of dealing with it.
0:58.0	And it's worked ever since.
0:59.0	Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Chris Dix.
1:03.0	What happened in the ring after tasting only good with his child's play compared to that?
1:08.0	Instead of going to this day.
1:11.0	You couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile of his face, couldn't you?
1:16.0	I know.
1:17.0	He's been beating me.
1:18.0	He said, we're letting four years back.
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