Season 5: #31 Brad Goodman
Boxing Life Stories
Tris Dixon
5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
His life in boxing continues more than 40 years on, and he was recently inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, and he proposed to his girlfriend during his induction speech.
There are always interesting chats, with real industry insiders and boxing lifers, and Brad has worked with almost all of the major names in the sport, going back to his first live fight when he saw Muhammad Ali fight Earnie Shavers at Madison Square Garden in 1977.
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| 0:19.0 | No, Teddy was working with Top Rank at that time. |
| 0:24.0 | They had the garden where Teddy was working and then he started working with Aaron. |
| 0:29.0 | I think it was maybe like 1980 or something like that. |
| 0:34.0 | Then Bruce came in in 1981 and I was a 17 year old little, you know, goofball. |
| 0:40.0 | You know, just hanging out with Irving Rudd doing paper clippings, running this city, doing messenger work. |
| 0:47.0 | But every time I would finish, you know, my job doing that, I would end up somehow some way in Teddy and Bruce's office. |
| 0:58.0 | What's the worst match you've ever made? |
| 1:03.0 | There's been a lot, believe me. |
| 1:06.0 | That's why I get humbled, you know. |
| 1:09.0 | If I have a great fight, I don't boost the brag about it because they remember you more for the bad fights. |
| 1:21.0 | You know, I was a completely whacked out kid, my father just passed. |
| 1:29.0 | And I was just, I was going nowhere. |
| 1:32.0 | And Bruce said he goes, you know, you got to get out of here. |
| 1:36.0 | Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Chris Tix. |
| 1:40.0 | What happened in the ring after that? |
| 1:42.0 | Tyson only got his child's play compared to that. |
| 1:45.0 | Still a goosebumps to this day. |
| 1:49.0 | You couldn't even take the tears from his eyes or the smile of his face, couldn't you? |
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