Season 5: #46 Julius Francis

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

The former heavyweight champion boxed a who's who of stars, from Mike Tyson to Vitali Klitschko and John Ruiz to Zejko Mavrovic, London's Francis was either linked to fighting them (George Foreman in Vegas, Herbie Hide and David Tua), sparred them or he boxed them.

His colourful life saw him grow up in foster care before serving several spells in prison and living life on the wrong side of the tracks. But boxing steered him away from that, and this story charts his incredible journey, his life in and out of the ring, boxing in a Russian circus, the current heavyweight scene and that infamous Boxpark knockout.

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0:00.0	And then years later, when I was boxing, and he always said to me, he would always say to me that you're, there's something about you, you know, there's this thing about you. and I believe that you can be a champion.
0:15.6	When after Tyson won the World title, John says him and I only just started boxing and John said to me
0:22.8	Judas you could fight that guy you could beat that guy and I was like
0:26.3	fuck off John that's that's Mike Tyson
0:30.3	if I'd have just did the Kung Fu and boxing as amateur, I never pursued it any further than that.
0:38.0	I would have been because I had a world life.
0:42.0	So boxing was able to ground me and discipline me and take me away.
0:45.7	It was able to take me away from the street.
0:49.4	You know?
0:50.4	Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Tristics.
0:54.0	What happened in the ring after...
0:56.0	That's an only good was Charles play compared to that one.
0:59.0	Still they're push for me to this day.
1:00.0	Ha ha ha ha.
1:02.0	He couldn't take the tears from his eyes or smile off his face, could you?
1:07.0	I know.
1:08.0	I should be bitten me.
1:09.0	He's a bullet for you back.
1:11.0	And the paper they made me look like Al Capine. This is going to be your night.
1:14.0	There's winning and there's nothing else.
1:18.0	Hello, welcome back to Boxing Life stories. This week I am fiend in London with Julius Francis, the former heavyweight Lonsdale belt holder who rubbed shoulders with the very best big men of his generation.
1:29.0	Julius has an incredible story to tell from foster care and serving time in prison to staring down
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