Season 5: #34 Larry Olubamiwo

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

Former heavyweight Larry Olubamiwo discusses his journey through boxing and life. A former sprinter, Larry got in to trouble, went to prison and then embarked on a career as a professional boxer.

Not long into his career, he fell victim to Operation Raw Deal and was caught up in a steroid scandal, admitted 13 offences throughout his career and was banned.

He came back, but settled for life as an opponent in the blue corner and then faded away, only to re-emerge as an actor.

Larry remains outspoken about PED use in boxing, how he thinks it should be regulated and how prevalent it is, lifting the lid on the dark side of the sport that many hope is not real, or not as bad as they fear it could be.

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0:00.0	Yeah, my mum was severely unhappy with me and I had to take down the chair and as you
0:09.6	said earlier, I had to hold up to it and try and make amends as much as possible.
0:21.2	And I'm thinking to myself, well, I don't know why I thought if they've come to my house,
0:28.5	they're most likely not going to come on the night party and I think I've just convinced
0:33.3	myself that they're not going to come on the night knowing that I've still got substances
0:38.7	in my body because I hadn't been, like I said, keeping an eye on my protocol.
0:44.4	Trist, you know I didn't even have to answer that.
0:48.7	Just from what you've seen since, for the last few years, I think you could even answer
0:53.8	that yourself.
0:55.2	Hello and welcome to Box in Life Stories with me, Chris Thix.
0:58.6	What happened in the ring after it stays the only good with his child's play compared to
1:03.0	that?
1:04.0	Still they've caused harm to this day.
1:05.0	Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
1:06.0	You just, you couldn't even take the tears from his eyes or the smile your face could
1:11.0	you.
1:12.0	I know.
1:13.0	It didn't make me, it's the one that's bowing his back.
1:15.0	And the baby didn't make me look like alcohol porn.
1:17.0	And if she's going to be your night.
1:18.8	There's a winning and there's nothing else.
1:23.0	Hello and welcome back to Boxing Live Stories. This week I have one of the more
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