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Boxing Life Stories

Season 5: #15 Billy Dib

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Billy Dib might have been the IBF featherweight champion of the world, worked with Oscar De La Hoya, Shane Mosley, 50 Cent and Naseem Hamed, but two weeks ago he was told the biggest news of his life when doctors informed him he was cancer free.

Here, Dib looks back on a journey that in recent months has united the boxing world, but one that saw him bullied as a kid, his first wife die of cancer and Dib experience many moments of hardship.

Now, with a new book out and an uplifting story to tell with a positive message he is keen to get out, Dib can talk about the future having won his fight to survive and spend more time with his wife and young son.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Some time over the summer, between watching sport, playing sport, and debating sport long

0:05.5

into the warm evenings, Sam decided to sign up to my diesel claim.

0:10.1

And despite not a single win for his teams, or even won in a debate, he ended the season

0:15.5

on a high.

0:16.7

After finding out he could be entitled to significant compensation.

0:20.6

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0:26.7

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0:32.5

at mydiesalclaim.com.

0:36.3

You might just give up, because it's just about you.

0:39.2

It's like getting old, people get old, right?

0:41.8

And they get to a certain age, you know, their friends have died, maybe their wife has died,

0:47.2

maybe their husband has died, maybe their kids have died.

0:49.7

They start to just give up, you know what I mean, they just give up, but I had something

0:54.1

to fight for.

0:55.4

And it was, I had something to live for, and it was just for me, or something for far greater

1:00.1

than just me.

1:03.2

You could say 14, 15, 16, then, then Naja's greatest hits came out, so I bought that, you

1:11.6

know what I mean?

1:12.6

But I would watch his video all the time, and I'd emulate him.

1:16.5

So then when I was 17 years of age, and I finally sent him, you know, a cassette video with

1:23.2

some of my highlights, he was like,

1:25.3

how is there a key to an Australia that fights just like me?

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