Season 5: #21 Elliot Worsell

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Boxing writer Elliot Worsell is one of the best scribes in the sport. He first freelanced for websites at the age of 16, was published in Boxing News at 17 and authored his first book at 22.

As well as working in PR for Hayemaker, he had a spell working with UFC fighters and his second book, Dog Rounds, became one of the most highly-acclaimed books in modern boxing.

Here, Worsell discusses his journey to finally joining the Boxing News staff in 2018, his books, his thoughts on the sport and the type of 'journalism' it has opened itself up to, his thirst for knowledge and never-ending quest for improvement and how reading and writing have allowed him to maintain sanity through some of the darker episodes of his life.

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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.
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0:32.5	at mydiesalclaim.com.
0:34.5	And I still value his ability to redefine it massively now.
0:40.0	I do.
0:41.0	He's one of those people.
0:42.0	He can get you listening.
0:45.6	Everything he says, it does resonate.
0:47.8	I don't know whether that gave you peace.
0:50.7	I don't know whether mine gave me peace, but it's almost like, you felt that I speak for
0:56.1	myself, but I felt like I had a duty to kind of at least acknowledge that part of the
1:00.9	sport.
1:01.9	At the time, I wanted to be involved, and I wanted to be close to it, and I wanted to
1:05.9	see things, and I wanted to gain insight, and I did all that, and I went to big fights,
1:11.1	and I was involved in big fights, and I spent time in training camps.
1:14.2	I got to see all these boxes really close up.
1:19.3	And now I have no desire for any of that.
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