Season 5: #29 Jesse Reid

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Jesse Reid is one of the most successful trainers of all time and has worked with between 20 and 30 world champions.

He coached the brilliant Orlando Canizales from the ground up, and he has trained the likes of Roger Mayweather, Rodolfo Gonzalez, Jesse Burnett, Hector Camacho and countless others.

He's also worked with some of boxing's most troubled minds, including Bruce Curry, Johnny Tapia and Paul Spadafora. Reid remains close to Spadafora to this day. He lost his fighting son, Jesse, to alcoholism and he has tried to help many fighters across the tightrope of addiction.

Jesse turned down the chance to train Mike Tyson, was the lead voice in the infamous Paul Spadafora-Floyd Mayweather spar and has been one of the most-respected voices in sport for more than 50 years.

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0:28.0	Time supply.
0:30.0	And believe me, when he beat me right here, you see me lifting him in the air and telling him, God dang you crazy son of a gun.
0:39.0	You just won the world title. Those moments are precious. He taught me about boxing. And I respect them. And I'm sorry, but there's so many beautiful things to say about him.
0:57.0	And he should have been a champion. And he is.
1:03.0	May weather comes to May, Jr. And he comes over to me the fourth round. He suggests the entire this is good.
1:11.0	You're going two more rounds. We're going to kick your ass. That's what I told him. And he went, he swacked at me.
1:18.0	Hello, and welcome to boxing life stories with me, Kristik. What happened in the ring after tasting only good with his child's play compared to that?
1:27.0	Still a close punch this day.
1:30.0	You couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile for space, could you?
1:35.0	I know.
1:36.0	He's been beating me. He said, well, let's bow you in the back. And the pavement made me look like Al Capone.
1:41.0	And he's going to beat you all night.
1:43.0	There's a winning and there's nothing else.
1:46.0	Hello, and welcome back to boxing life stories. This week I've been speaking to veteran trainer Jesse Reed.
1:52.0	And what a chat this is. It's emotional, provocative, insightful, and their incredible stories brilliantly told by Jesse.
2:00.0	Jesse and I spoke a few months ago for a project I'm working on with Paul Spadafore. And you can hear how much Paul still means to Jesse.
2:07.0	From my perspective, I love Jesse talking about one of his first fighters, Jesse Burnett, one of the excellent light heavyweights from the 1970s.
2:15.0	Teaching Orlando Kanazalas from the ground up, rejecting Mike Tyson, controlling the Spadafore and may wear the sparring session and much more.
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