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Boxing Life Stories

Season 5: #20 Lewis van Poetsch

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Journeyman Lewis van Poetsch racked up an extraordinary 170 professional fights before walking away with a win in his final contest this year.

'Poochi' spent a decade taking late calls, saving shows and working out of the away corner, fighting top prospects and stars alike, and often making sure they had their hands full.

He is also an army veteran, having served in Afghanistan and Northern Ireland, he's also worked as a barber and a lorry driver and now, staying in boxing, he is being trained to become a referee.


Transcript

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0:00.0

How do you expect me to spell sell 100 tickets in four days in London, on from, on from

0:06.5

Lidney and Glossyshire? You go, no, no, no, no, you're the way fight, you just turn up

0:09.7

and fight. I was like, oh, and so I went actually back to the kid, won the fight. And I was

0:14.4

like, why the hell am I running around like a head, a headless chicken selling tickets

0:18.8

when I can literally just turn up and fight? I always, one of the things I always say is

0:23.4

like, you never know until you try, but you got to have quite thick skin. You got to be

0:27.9

able to take, take the, take the shit that people give you, because people don't know

0:31.6

what they were looking at. I've, I've made more than any of myself now, as a journeyman,

0:37.4

done I ever would have done as a, as a home fighter. I wouldn't be doing podcasts with you

0:42.2

if I was a six and a half lab, they only had six fights. Hello, and welcome to Boxing

0:48.5

Life Stories with me, Christyx. What happened in the ring after that? Tyson only got

0:53.0

his, his child's play competitive to that. Still a full spawn to this day.

0:56.4

Just, you couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile of his face, couldn't you?

1:02.8

I know. I can beat, beat me, into one and throw you back and a pavement in me with a

1:08.2

big alcohol bomb. And if he's going to beat you tonight, there's a winning and there's

1:13.8

nothing else. Hello, and welcome back to Boxing Life Stories. This week I'm joined by

1:18.6

newly retired veteran journeyman, Lewis Fanpotch. Pucci, as he is known to his legions of fans,

1:24.7

has attained cult hero status in British Boxing, racking up an extraordinary 170 fights before

1:31.0

going out on a win earlier this year. Pucci is in fact staying in the sport too. He's

1:36.0

cutting his teeth as a trainee referee, and his experiences in the blue corner will surely

1:41.7

stand him in good stead. After all, he has been in the ring with the likes of Sam Edington,

1:47.4

Curtis Woodhouse and Idris Vergo, taking short notice calls, saving shows, traveling up

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