Comments Thread For: Richie Woodhall Interview Part 1: The Boxer’s Boxer

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Richie Woodhall’s glittering amateur career suffered a real stroke of misfortune during the 1988 Olympic Games. Woodhall, who had sailed into the semi-finals, came up against mercurial American talent Roy Jones Junior as both men vied for a place in the final. Richie lost by a 5-0 margin; Jones went onto fight Park Si-Hun in the concluding contest; we all know what happened next, the judges awarded the fight to their countryman, who allegedly apologised to the stunned Jones. So, it was a bronze medal and back to the drawing board for Woodhall; silver for Jones; both men went onto become world champions.

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[daggum]

"i lost fair and square on the night to holmes and there are no excuses." but you just spent the previous 3 paragraphs making excuses to why you lost. weird innit!

[English puncher]

"i lost fair and square on the night to holmes and there are no excuses." but you just spent the previous 3 paragraphs making excuses to why you lost. weird innit!

not really, thats boxing .. great read this was richie is a stand up guy!

[Neckodeemus]

not really, thats boxing .. great read this was richie is a stand up guy!

Yeah, the OP has to understand that boxing is a confidence game, the guy lost his '0' to Holmes and needed to dust himself off and have another run at the titles so he told himself that a lot had gone against him, it is a confidence thing.

Any fighter who admits that he was 100% and could not win the fight is going to win some fans but what happens next time he has to go out to the ring? You can't have stinking thinking when you're in the fight business.

Richie was gracious, he praised Holmes and in the interview we did together he went over the ins and outs of the fight, details of his injury were reported in the press at the time and he brought the injury up in order to talk about how he adapted his style ahead of his 168lb run.

Thanks for the reads and responses and have a good Christmas!

[The Monk]

Good read.

I was lucky enough to chat with Richie for a few minutes during half time of a football match a few years back. The man is a great ambassador for boxing.