Season 5: #32 Augie Sanchez

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Augie Sanchez was the last American to beat Floyd Mayweather. In the amateurs, before losing out in the 1996 Olympic box-offs, Sanchez also defeated the late Diego Corrales and was one of the finest amateurs in the country.

In the pros, and after signing for Top Rank, he and Mayweather appeared to be on a collision course but it never happened. Instead, he boxed the likes of Naseem Hamed, Jorge Paez, Daniel Jimenez and Luisito Espinosa.

Augie retired young and after just 28 fights. He is now a popular and highly-regarded trainer in Las Vegas, where he lives with his childhood sweetheart, Dawn, and their children.

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0:00.0	I had a great career, I had a good, I had some good fights, a good knockout ratio, all
0:05.9	that stuff.
0:06.9	And all the people, yeah, always people always ask me, why did you quit so early?
0:10.4	It was just something like, in me that it was just, I didn't want to get back into it
0:13.9	again.
0:14.9	I mean, I mean, I knew he was good, you know.
0:21.3	And then, yeah, so I mean, I didn't rate, I mean, I don't know how good, I know he didn't
0:25.5	be like this, what he is now.
0:28.1	You know, he was more of a counter-puncher, so I mean, so he had a lot of power, so I mean,
0:37.1	if he hits you, you're done.
0:39.4	Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Chris Dix.
0:42.8	What happened in the ring after the Tyson only got his child's play compared to that?
0:47.4	Still they've caused fun to this day.
0:49.4	You couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile of his face, couldn't you?
0:55.4	I know.
0:57.0	He's a little boy, he's a little boy, he's a little boy.
0:59.5	And the baby name made me look like Al Capone.
1:01.6	And his face is gonna be your night.
1:03.0	He's winning, and there's nothing else.
1:06.2	Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories.
1:09.1	This week, I've been in Las Vegas, where I spent time with former featherweight contender
1:12.6	Oge Sanchers.
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