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Boxing Life Stories

Season 5: #24 Lawrence Lustig

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

For five decades, Lawrence Lustig has been a regular at ringside as a photographer.

Initially he worked for agencies, then the Daily Star newspaper, then he became a Matchroom stalwart and now he is at Boxxer.

He and Charlie Magri were one another's best men, and here Lawrence talks about the art of being a boxing photographer, the truth behind the Bentt-Hide press conference brawl, his role in bringing Lennox Lewis to the UK after the Olympics, the break up of The Cartel, taking photos at tragic fights and much more.

This interview flew by.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.5

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0:15.6

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0:36.0

A phone ambrose at home, and he'd already left his wife's home, he's left for the office.

0:45.3

So I phoned the office and Frank will only picked up the phone.

0:48.7

And I said, Frank, would you like to manage the next heavyweight champion in the world?

0:56.3

I like, I always treat people with a lot of respect, I hope, and I hope they respect me.

1:06.4

And I always got on well with Lloyd, and in boxing, I've not really found too many people

1:12.7

that I don't like.

1:16.3

Most people I like, and I seem to get on with them.

1:20.5

But that goes to that, and he sort of slaps it off his head.

1:23.5

And of course, the next Michael Benson-Root immediate reaction, it's a slackback,

1:27.8

and the next thing they're both on the floor, rolled in a bear in their suits.

1:32.7

Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories, with me, Chris Dix.

1:36.2

What happened in the ring after tasting only good with his child's play compared to that?

1:40.8

Still they've caused fun to this day.

1:44.5

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

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