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Boxing Life Stories

Season 5: #40 Hasim Rahman

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Hasim 'The Rock' Rahman shocked the world when he knocked out Lennox Lewis to become the lineal world heavyweight champion.

His name was etched in the history books alongside the likes of Johnson, Luis, Marciano, Ali and Holmes as The Man who beat The Man, before he lost the crown back to Lewis in a rematch.

Rahman had a long, decorated career with plenty of incident packed in. Having survived shootings on the streets of Baltimore, his life hit a crossroads and he focused on boxing.

He would go on to fight David Tua, Oleg Maskaev, Lewis twice, John Ruiz, Wladimir Klistchko, James Toney, Corrie Sanders and many more in his career that spanned 50 wins, nine losses with two draws.

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And what I mean by that is, you know, like the things that I faced on the streets,

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the bullets, the stick-up guys, the beef sweat, rival crews, you know,

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it was guns and knives and all kinds of different weapons and all.

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So when you tell me, I don't give you, you tell me, Mike Tyson, Reddy Bowling,

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so you talk about one man.

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It's hard for me to fear one man.

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I hate when people say that somebody punches so hard that they beat, right?

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But he wanted the hardest punches I've ever faced.

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And what made him, his punches so hard was that he was south part.

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He was like, he was dropping bombs the wrong way.

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You know, like, I ain't used to this.

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Like, I'm used to conventional fighters and conventional punches and conventional power.

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But it's all, everything was unconventional for him.

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Lenny Old Champion, where you go to Joe Lois, you go to Jack Dempsey,

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