Season 5: #33 Jim Lampley

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Former HBO broadcaster and International Boxing Hall of Famer takes a look back on his hugely successful career behind the mic.

Lampley is one of the all-time great voices of boxing, someone who has fought for the fighters, told their stories and been the soundtrack to many of the greatest fights of all time.

Here, he looks back on the nights he helped define, whether it was Buster Douglas stunning Mike Tyson, or his friend George Foreman rewriting history against Michael Moorer, Jim is filled with the articulate knowledge and emotion and that makes him one of the greats.

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0:00.0	one of Jack's sames that I heard on the golf course several times that I heard from him and other
0:05.2	discussions was lamp always under act don't ever oversell always under act so when Tyson goes
0:14.0	down and the count reaches 10 my line is Mike Tyson has been knocked out and that was under acting
0:22.7	he he had some street lingo in him and he he got one with that Floyd would never admit that he
0:30.9	was he was gotten at that moment but Larry got it of all the people I know in my frame of
0:43.5	reference to my friendship set under luckiest I've had by far the luckiest life of anyone I know
0:53.0	and everything you and I have talked about here today is at the heart of that hello and welcome
1:00.0	to box and life stories with me critics what happened in the ring after it's Tyson only got his
1:05.6	child's play compared to that they still have goosebumps to this day you couldn't take the tears
1:12.7	for his eyes or the smile his face could you I know I didn't beat me he's a bullet four years back
1:18.8	and a baby they made me look like alcohol bomb this is going to be your life is winning and there's
1:25.2	nothing else hello welcome back to box and life stories this week we have yet another hall of
1:31.2	famer as a guest and it's the iconic gym lamply for many gym is the best sportscaster in the history
1:38.1	of boxing and he was the voice of some of the greatest fights of all time making some of the sports
1:44.6	historic calls you name it from Tyson and Douglas to form and mora and of course Gatty Ward
1:52.2	gym captured the imagination with his emotion his articulation his timing and his professionalism
1:59.2	as you can tell I have the utmost admiration for gym along with Larry merchant they were my two
2:04.6	favorite voices in boxing growing up and to listen to that voice tell me stories for almost an
2:09.9	hour and 20 minutes is a dream come true I can't thank Jim enough for his time I think he thought
2:16.3	we were going to do about 30 minutes and he even apologized at the end for going long and I put
2:21.6	that in inverted commas because I could could have easily done another two hours of this gym was one
2:26.9	of my top targets some 231 episodes ago and I'm both thrilled and a little relieved that we have
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