Season 5: #47 Derek Williams

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

'Sweet D' Derek Williams reflects on an incredible career that saw him win Commonwealth and European titles, while fighting the likes of Lennox Lewis, Bert Cooper, Jose Ribalta, David Bey, Hughroy Currie and Jimmy Thunder.

Williams also travelled the US, taking dangerous fights and sparring some of the biggest names, including Gerry Cooney and Mike Tyson.

Now a columnist for Boxing News, Williams also looks after the youth in London, helping them by allowing them to benefit from his amazing experiences.

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0:00.0	You build, that's what you do.
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0:30.0	That's the thing because I'm not saying to people, oh yeah yeah, I'll beat my Tyson, but but sparing is spary and fighting,
0:37.0	but with my tyson, sparing is fighting because at the time it was, the same intensity that he brought in fights he bring it inspiring.
0:44.4	What you get for me is what you get I'm not going to be like this now and go around
0:50.4	close doors and be someone else. You know what I mean?
0:53.2	I'm me.
0:54.0	I don't have to try to be, I don't try to be nice,
0:56.1	I don't try to be horrible.
0:57.1	I just try to be sweet deep.
1:00.1	When I've entity got off of some combational
1:02.3	thing, right? I felt good in myself because I feel yeah and now I'm getting through so I feel
1:06.8	Flash you know what I mean? I'm like you know what I like you know get the early trouble
1:10.0	I don't know where that came from you know what I mean.
1:13.0	Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Tristics.
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