Welcome back to Macklin's Take everyone!To celebrate our return, this week we welcome to the podcast top trainer Manny Robles.Manny was in town last week for the Joshua vs Usky bill and me and Matt seized the opportunity to accompany him on a deep dive into that magical night in Madison Square Garden when he and Andy Ruiz shocked the boxing world.Little did we know when we sat down and hit record that another huge heavyweight result was looming!Hope you enjoy it, it's great to be back :) Desire ...
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 131
YORK HALL - the spiritual home of british boxing. (Boxing News - The opening bell podcast) for the full version. Join Darren Rees on an atmospheric deep-dive into the magic of the old venue that’s provided fight fans of all ages with so many special memories.From its 1929 opening as public baths in which Londoners would wash, right through to the present day - via visits from the likes of Tapia and Lomachenko - this audio documentary relives the great nights, fights and events that are pillars o...
Jul 27, 2021•6 min•Season 1Ep. 131
As we canter towards our summer break, me & Matt thought it was about time we invited our good pal Joe Gallagher back onto the podcast.As we said a few weeks ago, we've decided on MT that the pandemic is over, we're nothing if not a glass half full enterprise after all, and so with that in mind are taking the opportunity to have a look back at a unique period in boxing history.And Joe was an ideal man to do that with 😁 Desire + CapitalRyan and Jamie talking about people talking about Marx, ...
Jul 04, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 130
This week we welcome Dennis Hobson onto the podcast.Dennis has been involved in boxing as a promoter at all levels of the sport. He's taken the likes of Clinton Woods, Stuey Hall & Jamie McDonnell to world titles and conquered America with Ricky Hatton.He has plenty of tales to tell and we were only too happy to hear them. And he's now back on the front line with Fight Zone too so we also had a good chat about that. Desire + CapitalRyan and Jamie talking about people talking about Marx, and ...
Jun 28, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 129
This week me and Matt welcome back our Franchise champion, the one and only Jon Pegg.Macklin's Take will be taking a summer break in a few weeks and we reckon that when we return boxing will be back, crowds will be back and the Covid era will finally be coming to a close.So we decided that over the next few episodes we'd have a bit of a light hearted look back at what has been a crazy last 15 months or so in the company of some selected guests. And unsurprisingly Jon was one of the first names o...
Jun 21, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 128
This week on Macklin's Take me and Matt are joined by Mike Altamura.Mike is a genuine boxing insider; a matchmaker, agent and fixer, he's been involved in the sport at pretty much every level from organising local shows in his home country of Australia, to scouting for Top Rank at Olympic Games, to managing fighters to world titles.Mike's got one of those great, "only in boxing" kind of stories and it was tremendous fun hearing it.Macklin's Take is now also on YouTube so if you could find your w...
Jun 14, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 127
This week me & Matt catch up with Daily Star boxing writer Chris McKenna.A few weeks ago it was Chris who broke the news that AJ vs Fury wouldn't be happening because Tyson would have to first give Deontay Wilder a third fight.It was a huge story, the biggest of Chris' career to date so we were keen to know how it came about and just what it's like working on the boxing beat for a daily newspaper in the current climate; a job where you have to combine the old school values of the printed dai...
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 126
This week on Macklin's Take me & Matt are joined by our good friend Tris Dixon.A former editor of Boxing News, Tris has long been one of the most respected figures in British boxing journalism.And he has a new book out.It's called Damage; The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing. It's a must read for everyone who really cares about the sport, absolutely everyone. It's the kind of book that could bring about real change and it was fascinating to talk to Tris about how he came to write it.An...
May 31, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 125
This week me & Matt Macklin welcome back to the podcast a newly retired Carl Frampton.The 2-weight world champion talks about hanging the gloves up, Belfast roots, childhood ambitions and we give him a few ideas for what he might want to do next, apart from boxing punditry of course.It's been over a year since we last spoke to Carl so it was great to get him back on; we hope to catch him ringside soon.Macklin's Take is now also on YouTube so if you could find your way over there and click su...
May 25, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 124
Back in March we had a long and very enjoyable chat with a 15-0 Sunny Edwards about the trials and tribulations of a boxing life and how he'd managed to drive his career to the brink of a world title shot.A couple of months later he's now 16-0 and the new IBF Flyweight champion of the world after dethroning Moruti Mthalane, a man who hadn't lost since 2008, in immaculate style.That ladies and gentlemen is the power of Macklin's Take :)But seriously, we had to get Sunny back on the pod to hear al...
May 18, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 123
This week me & Matt welcome Carl Greaves to the podcast.Carl's our favourite type of guest, a true insider of the sport, a genuine boxing lifer!He was a pro fighter and is now a trainer, manager, promoter and matchmaker. He's done it all; from taking fighters on the road to guiding David Avanesyan to a world title.It was great fun chatting to him about the ups and downs of the fight game. Desire + CapitalRyan and Jamie talking about people talking about Marx, and occasionally Marx himself......
May 10, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 122
This week on Macklin's Take...It's the Return of the Cobra.Me and Matt Macklin welcome back our good friend and colleague, 3-time world Super Middleweight champion, Carl Froch.As usual the conversation took a number of turns with Carl and Matt discussing how fighters condition themselves to pain, how your formative boxing years shape you as a fighter, and why Carl wouldn't want his son to box pro.And we had time for a chat about Canelo vs Saunders and a bit of Tyson Fury too.Macklin's Take is no...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 121
It's Chisora vs Parker at the weekend so we though we'd bring you an extra podcast this week.In this one we catch up with our good friend Andy Lee, who now trains Joseph Parker to get his thoughts on life in the corner and of course Saturday's main event.It was a very enjoyable conversation and just as I was thinking about bringing it to a close a message popped up on the screen saying that a certain Adam Booth had been admitted to the Zoom waiting room. I had no idea how that had happened but w...
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 42 min
This week me and Matt had the great honour of being joined on the podcast by legendary, Hall of Fame boxing writer Jerry Izenberg.Jerry's been covering boxing for the Newark Star Ledger in New Jersey since 1950 and has seen it all; from the post war period when the Mafia controlled boxing right up until the present day.Name an iconic fight during that period and Jerry was ringside. Patterson, Liston, Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Spinks, Holmes, Tyson, Holyfield, he's known them all so it was an absolu...
Apr 26, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 119
This week on Macklin's Take we plunge into another deep dive into a big fight, journeying back half a century to Madison Square Garden and the Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali.It was a boxing occasion like no other an ringside that night, reporting on the fight for the British press, was a young Alan Hubbard so me and Matt were absolutely delighted when Alan, now a true Don of the boxing print media, agreed to join us on the podcast and give us his memories of March 8th,...
Apr 20, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 118
This week on Macklin's Take me and Matt are joined by Welterweight contender Michael McKinson.Mikey scored the biggest win of his career, a make or break win really, in Gibraltar against fellow unbeaten fighter Chris Kongo recently and has had a very interesting upbringing and journey through the sport so now seemed like the right time to invite him on and let him tell it.Macklin's Take is now also on YouTube so if you could find your way over there and click subscribe, that would be great.http:...
Apr 20, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 118
This week on Macklin's Take me & Matt Macklin are joined by Boxing News editor and recent SJA award winner Matt Christie.We talk to Matt about his route into the industry, his career, the pressures of his role, the current boxing scene, anything and everything basically.Macklin's Take is now also on YouTube so if you could find your way over there and click subscribe, that would be great.http://bitly.com/MacklinsTakeYouTube Desire + CapitalRyan and Jamie talking about people talking about Ma...
Apr 02, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 116
This week on Macklin's Take me & Matt talk to Professor Damian Hughes, co-host of the High Performance podcast, author, and son of the legendary Manchester trainer Bryan Hughes MBE.Damian grew up surrounded by boxing and has spent his career in large part studying why elite coaches and athletes do what they do and how they go about doing it; the behaviours they insist upon and the logic they employ.And we started off with a question that has always intrigued me: Why does anyone choose a boxi...
Mar 27, 2021•1 hr 18 min
With Povetkin vs Whyte rapidly approaching Barry Jones joins me and Matt from his bedroom on the Sunborn yacht in Gibraltar to look ahead to Saturday.Barry's been on the ground for a couple of days so was the perfect man to bring us up to date with what's been happening and to give us his verdict on the weekend's fights.He has managed to sunburn his bald head though :)This episode is also up on our YouTube channel:http://bitly.com/MacklinsTakeYouTube Desire + CapitalRyan and Jamie talking about ...
Mar 25, 2021•57 min
With Povetkin vs Whyte coming up at the weekend we decided to bring you some extra pods this week.In this one we catch up with the 10-0 Fabio Wardley who takes on two-time world title challenger Eric Molina in the chief support.Fabio's route into pro boxing was an unusual one and he's made huge strides since turning over just 4 years ago, in no small part due to his mental approach to the sport and the self-belief he discovered early on in his boxing journey and has managed to successfully nurtu...
Mar 23, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 113
This week on Macklin's take me and Matt are joined by top trainer Adam Booth.We take Adam on a deep dive back to his days working with David Haye, tracing their journey through from amateur days at Fitzroy Lodge, to the Playboy Mansion, and take it right up to their make or break night in Paris when David dethroned WBC & WBA Cruiserweight King Jean Marc Mormeck to become world champion.Any conversation with Adam is always fascinating and this one was no different.Macklin's Take is also now o...
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 112
This week sees me and Matt welcome former IBF World Middleweight champion and good friend Darren Barker to the podcast for a long overdue Macklin's Take debut.Matt and Darren, were the same weight and their careers ran in parallel lines really. They very nearly boxed at one point, posters were printed and it was all ready to go top of the bill on the much-vaunted Magnificent Seven card, but an injury to Darren prevented it. So we revisit the fight that never was and the two of them compare notes...
Mar 13, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 111
This week on Macklin's Take me and Matt are joined by the 15-0 British Super Flyweight champion Sunny Edwards.Getting noticed as a young pro fighter, if you don't turn over with Olympic pedigree, has always been a challenge. Boxing is a business and as a fighter you have to market yourself, promote yourself, drive your own career; in short you have to sell yourself as best you can. And you have to be able to fight too. It's a long, hard game and you have to have a plan.Sunny has always had a pla...
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 40 min•Season 1Ep. 110
In this episode we take you back to Christmas 1997 and NYC for a deep dive into Prince Naseem Hamed's sensational US debut at Madison Square Garden vs Kevin Kelley.There was never a dull moment with Naz and nobody knows that better than Sky Sport's Adam Smith, who was on the inside of the Sheffield fighter's career through its many highs and also its controversial lows. Adam was in New York 24 years ago, spending 2 weeks out there wrapped around a fight that with hindsight was probably the highl...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 109
This week we welcome Matchroom Boxing CEO Frank Smith back to the podcast.Plenty has happened in the 16 months since we last spoke to him and we talk to him about the challenges attached to promoting the sport during the Covid era and Matchroom's plans to take boxing global over the next couple of years. And plenty else besides.And please do check out our new YouTube channel. Loads of content from recent podcasts up there, as well as the new Macklin's Weekly Take, where we react to current boxin...
Feb 18, 2021•1 hr 18 min
In this episode me and Matt Macklin talk the Art of the Deal with boxing Hall of Famer Lou DiBella.With a mega fight between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury in the pipeline we decided we needed to get the inside track on how fights like that actually get made, how negotiations get over the line and what the major obstacles often are.Lou has performed pretty much every role in the business of boxing and at the very highest level too so he was the ideal man for the job. It was a very illuminating co...
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 107
This week on Macklin's Take we bring you an episode people have been asking for over the last year or so.An in-depth discussion of strength and conditioning training. What is it? What's it designed to achieve? How much should you do and when should you do it?There are plenty of misconceptions out there so we recruited MMA fighter and top S&C coach Chris Miah to guide us through the whole thing as well as the weight-making process and plenty else besides. Desire + CapitalRyan and Jamie talkin...
Feb 07, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 106
Cus D'Amato once said that fear is like fire: If you can control then it can give you heat and light but if you can't control then it will burn you to the ground.This week me and Matt Macklin are joined by former WBC Super Middleweight champion, now clinical psychotherapist Glenn Catley to talk about fear, about how fighters have to be able not to just overcome it but to harness it, control it, to "make it their friend" as Matt often says. It's a key issue, one that affects not just boxers but p...
Jan 30, 2021•1 hr 19 min
This week me and Matt are joined by one of the best commentators in the business; the smooth voice of BT Boxing, John Rawling.John's called countless big fights from ringside over the last few decades and his enthusiasm for the job remains undimmed so it was great to talk to him about the demands of the role and how he believes it should be done.We also had time to have a look at how the industry has changed in the time he's been in it and in an effort to boost everyone's morale turned the clock...
Jan 22, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 104
This week me & Matt Macklin bring you our first episode of 2021, so welcome back everyone! And we revisit the Make or Break theme we came up with over the summer where we talk to fighters about pivotal fights in their careers, fights that had they lost them then their lives would not have been the same. Our guest is Curtis Woodhouse, who has one of the best stories in all of sport, not just boxing. A premier League footballer, he turned his back on the game in his mid-20s to become a profess...
Jan 18, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 103
