Life is beautiful for Zab Judah, 48, six years after brain surgery
Zab Judah, the former undisputed welterweight champion, is content with what he achieved and says he is enjoying life after boxing.
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Biography
Tris Dixon covered his first amateur boxing fight in 1996. The former editor of Boxing News, he has written for a number of international publications and newspapers, including GQ and Men’s Health, and is a board member for the Ringside Charitable Trust and the Ring of Brotherhood. He has been a broadcaster for TNT Sports and hosts the popular “Boxing Life Stories” podcast. Dixon is a British Boxing Hall of Famer, an International Boxing Hall of Fame elector, a BWAA award winner, and is the author of five boxing books, including “Damage: The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing” (shortlisted for the William Hill Sportsbook of the Year), “Warrior: A Champion’s Search for His Identity” (shortlisted for the Sunday Times International Sportsbook of the Year) and “The Road to Nowhere: A Journey Through Boxing’s Wastelands.” You can reach him @trisdixon on X and Instagram.
Area of Expertise
Interviews, long-form features, columns, and investigations
Interests
Attended an amateur fight card in an old barn in 1996. I started attending pro shows in 2000.
Career Background
I freelanced from 2001 to 2006 and started full-time with Boxing News in 2007. However, as a freelancer I was living and breathing it and working well beyond full-time hours. I started boxing in 1995 as an amateur and fell in love with it there and then. I was welcomed into my amateur gym, made to feel part of the community and managed to find some self-respect and confidence. Boxing does that to you, and that’s a significant reason for doing what I do, along with having so much respect for what fighters put themselves through to actually fight.
Awards & Honors
Inducted into the British Boxing Hall of Fame; shortlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year (Damage: The untold story of brain trauma in boxing), Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year (Warrior: A champion’s search for his identity), Daily Telegraph biography of the Year (War and Peace, Ricky Hatton’s autobiography); Boxing Writers Association of America Award winner with multiple placings and honorable mentions.
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Lyndon Arthur plans to burn Bradley Rea’s bridge to world titles
The path Lyndon Arthur has taken to his fight on Saturday with Bradley Rea could have been very different...
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Zach Parker on Joshua Buatsi bout: ‘It doesn’t get much bigger than this’
Zach Parker is in the biggest fight of his life against Joshua Buatsi on Saturday in Manchester, UK, in a light heavyweight bout that has been described as a must-win for both.
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Bradley Rea fights Lyndon Arthur with Ricky Hatton in his mind
European light-heavyweight champion Brad Rea admitted he’s in the “biggest fight” of his career against Lyndon Arthur on Saturday.
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Journeyed Joshua Buatsi’s perspective is unaffected by defeat
Joshua Buatsi was not irritated by the question. He just doesn’t agree with the line of questioning, writes Tris Dixon...
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Troy Jones is a fighting man – just don’t ask him to make flat-packed furniture
Jones, a light heavyweight prospect from Birmingham, England, faces late replacement Liam Cameron on November 1.
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Promoter Nelson Lopez discusses Global Combat Amateurs
"Just like football, basketball, and track and field have given our youth a platform, now combat sports will have its place," Nelson tells Tris Dixon.
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Liam Cameron: ‘Something really bad happened before the Ben Whittaker rematch’
Liam Cameron spent years in the shadows, caving to his addictions, lost from boxing having been suspended.
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Joshua Buatsi feels British boxing owes Anthony Joshua a debt of gratitude
"Thank God AJ brought it [boxing] up in England because I feel like the British kind of like it," Joshua Buatsi tells Tris Dixon.
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