Season 5: #49 Eric Donovan

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

Irish amateur standout Eric Donovan was close to boxing at the London Olympics in 2012 but instead was headed to rehab.

Now, following a long journey into recovery, Donovan is a retired professional with an incredible story to tell.

Donovan is a father, counsellor, trainer and husband, and he is the voice of wisdom and an engaging talker, whose incredible story – which, in professional boxing terms went against the grain and ended on a high – is about a man who is likely going to inspire future generations of Irish fighters.

The 10th round Eric refers to in this podcast against El Hadri – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMoRVMQg4vE

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0:30.1	I love to see the amateur game. I love seeing my kids taking a punch and giving a punch and shaking hands and embracing each other after.
0:35.8	Like that's something special about that, you know?
0:38.8	It was very lonely time for me and it was something that like because I was on the verge of qualifying for I was I was very close to qualifying for the London Olympics and through a couple of different things in my life I ended up not making it and I ended up in an addiction
1:00.4	rehabilitation center and I remember being in that rehabilitation center and I felt like the world,
1:06.0	all the hurts of the world were on my shoulders, you know,
1:09.0	felt like, you know, I was in a world of pain like
1:15.8	It's rocky. It's rocky story stuff like and I always dreamed of being involved in something like that, a classic fight, one where you kind of, you're down, you're up, you know, one that has many different chapters, some going for you, some going against you, and then you're victorious in the end.
1:33.3	Hello and welcome to boxing life stories with me Tristics.
1:38.0	What happened in the ring after...
1:39.2	Tison only was Charles play compared to that one.
1:42.6	Still the poospong to this day.
1:44.0	He just couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile of his face, could you?
1:51.0	I know.
1:52.0	He's been bitten me. He's a bullet buy in the back.
1:54.0	And the paper they made me look like Al-Kapine.
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