Season 5: #19 Rachel Charles
Boxing Life Stories
Tris Dixon
5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
She started working for Dan Goossen, thanks to James Toney, and her impressive list of clients includes Buddy McGirt, Andre Ward, Paul Williams, Golden Boy Promotions, Zab Judah and many more.
But Rachel has not had it easy. She was abused when she was young, but now finds common ground with fighters who have suffered from trauma. She was inspired by the likes of Debbie Caplan and Jackie Kallen in the business side of boxing, made history as the first woman to work with a Saudi Arabian fighter and after more than 20 years in the sport explains why she can't get it out of her blood.
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| 0:00.0 | Um, I think I still am actually, so yeah, it's pretty um, oh my god, Triss, you're gonna make me cry. |
| 0:06.7 | Um, I just felt like, what a waste of a life. |
| 0:13.6 | I remember Dan Gusson saying, you've got to marry this position. If you don't marry it, you know, |
| 0:17.6 | if you're not into it, you're not going to make it. And I really took that, you know, very seriously, |
| 0:22.9 | and I worked my ass off. And it's not even woman to man, right? It's just boxing. |
| 0:29.0 | If you're not tough and you're not strong enough to withstand what it does bring to you, |
| 0:34.7 | then you're screwed anyway. |
| 0:37.1 | Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Tristix. What happened in the ring after |
| 0:42.0 | tasting only good with his child's play compared to that? |
| 0:45.2 | Still they've caused fun to this day. |
| 0:48.9 | You couldn't even take the tears from his eyes or the smile of his face, could you? |
| 0:53.2 | I know, I can't wait for you in the back. |
| 0:57.0 | And the baby name made me look like alcohol bomb. |
| 0:59.2 | I mean, she's going to be your night. |
| 1:00.7 | There's a winning and there's nothing else. |
| 1:05.2 | Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories. This week, my guest has been a friend |
| 1:09.0 | for more than 20 years. And in fact, the first round about Rachel Charles and Boxing News |
| 1:13.8 | in 2004, when she was, according to the headline, The Goose and Girl with the Brummy Hackson. |
| 1:20.1 | Now she's one of the leading independent publicists in the sport. Rachel's been great to work |
| 1:25.2 | with over the years, and she's rubbed shoulders with some of the biggest names in Boxing, |
| 1:29.6 | from Andre Ward and James Tony, to Paul Williams, Golden Boy Promotions, |
| 1:34.2 | Zab Judah and Buddy McGurt. The list is pretty much endless. |
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