Macklin's Take - Boxing Podcast

This week on Macklin's Take we bring you part 2 with the legendary Gary Newbon. Please do make sure you have listened to part one before hitting the play button on this one! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on Macklin's Take we bring you the first of two episodes with the one and only Gary Newbon. Gary spent 50 years at the top level in TV and was of course a big part of the brilliant ITV team that brought us the Big Fight Live. Benn vs Eubank, Eubank vs Watson, Benn vs McClellan attracted enormous viewing audiences and Gary was right in the middle of it all, getting where water couldn't an...

This week on Macklin's Take me and Matt are joined by boxing media mogul and seeker of truth and justice Rob Tebbutt. Rob is one of the most respected and influential operators in boxing's vast digital platform and his channel ID Boxing has quickly earned a reputation as an industry leader. We talk to Rob about the complexities of the YouTube platform and how he's chosen to navigate it over the ye...

This week on Macklin's Take me and Matt are joined by Boxxer's International Head of Boxing Al Siesta. And we ask whether relations between the major UK promoters have hit an all-time low. Or are they capable of working together more so we can avoid nights like May 27th, when we have three world title fights involving British fighters on different cards and different networks, on the same night. B...

This week we welcome a certain Kody Mommaerts onto the podcast. You'll know him better as Boxxer and Sky MC Big Mo, who has blazed a trail across our screens since making his Sky debut in Bournemouth last summer. An outstanding athlete back in his college days, which weren't long ago at all, his journey to the centre of the ring has been an interesting one to say the least. It was great to sit dow...

With Macklin now safely back from paternity leave and the podcast back on the road, this week we catch up with our great pal Spencer Oliver. After his career was cut short by injury Spencer very quickly became a pundit and has remained in that role for 25 years. The job has changed a lot over that period, beyond all recognition is some ways, so Spence was the perfect man to fill us in on what has...

This week on Macklin's Take we've tracked down a man we've been after for a while; trainer, manager and promoter Errol Johnson. Errol runs Black Country Boxing. He's one off the busiest blokes in the boxing business and knows it inside out. We see him and his fighters up and down the country all the time and he goes way back with Macklin too, having been in the opposite corner for Matt's first eve...

Joining us for our first podcast of 2023, Joe Gallagher and Spencer Oliver. Matt was actually held up in traffic but we were able to keep the ship afloat without him and he did manage to make it in time to join us towards the end. We had a look at what we can expect in 2023, where the sport sits currently in terms of its popularity, the impact of Misfits boxing, and even had time to talk commentar...

For our final podcast of 2022 me and Matt welcome back Board of Control General Secretary Robert Smith. It's been an interesting year, in boxing it always is. We've had stadium fights, scoring controversies, the re-emergence of a robust small hall scene post Covid, the death of a monarch and the Conor Benn saga. And whilst Robert may not have loved every single second of it, as he rightly told us,...

In this one me and Matt look back at Fury vs Chisora and give our take on how the fight and the whole event played out. We take a look at the state of the current promotional and TV landscape within boxing. And we talk a bit of Josh Kelly as well. Desire + CapitalRyan and Jamie talking about people talking about Marx, and occasionally Marx himself....Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify The Noco Mo...

Lewis Van Poetsch, better known as Poochi, is one British boxing's finest away corner warriors, and along with his manager and trusted cornerman Rich Farnan, travels the land taking on all comers. It's a crucial role, one that's unique to boxing really, and one that's maybe changing a bit too. There have been a number of away corner wins recently and Poochi has notched a few himself, so me and Mat...

This week we embark on another Big Fight Deep Dive. Our leader on this expedition is top boxing journalist Steve Lillis who takes back almost 20 years to Louisville, Kentucky and Mike Tyson vs Danny Williams. It was a hell of a week and a hell of a result, with stories to match! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our pals George Groves and Dec Taylor have created their own boxing club, 'The George Groves Boxing Club' and it's well worth your time and attention. They've given us a taster to share with you and here it is. Search 'The George Groves Boxing Club' in any podcast platform and you will find it there. Macklin's Take will return next week!  Desire + CapitalRyan and Jamie talking about people talking...

By popular request this week sees the return of the Big Fight Deep Dive, where we take an in-depth look at a key clash from years gone by in the company of somebody who was there. A fight that's been on the list for a long time is Chris Eubank vs Steve Collins from March 18th 1995.Eubank was the long-reigning WBO Super Middleweight champion and maybe the biggest name in British boxing at the time...

In this special extra episode me and Matt discuss the ongoing Conor Benn saga. We first discussed it when the news very first broke but have deliberately kept our powder dry since because no new information had come to light and we're not in the business of indulging in pointless speculation. But last week saw some revelations so we decided it was time to address what has become one of the British...

We love a boxing insider on Macklin's Take :)And this week me and Matt sit down with a man who was right on the inside of boxing's premier broadcasting flagship for over 25 years. Mark Taffet was head of HBO Pay Per View and with the company from 1983, all the way through to 2015.He was fundamental in putting together some of the biggest fights the world has seen and a key player in HBO fight card...

This week it's part 2 of our chat with the one and only Ambrose Mendy. Last time out Ambrose regaled with some great tales of adventure from his early days, promoting alongside Frank Warren and cracking the cartel. Today he gives us the inside track on the formative years of his relationship with Nigel Benn and tells us the whole story behind how Benn vs Watson ended up being contested in a huge t...

This week me and Matt caught up with the one and only Ambrose Mendy. Best known for his days with Nigel Benn, Ambrose has been an influential figure in British boxing for decades, these days working as an advisor to Boxxer. There are very few things he hasn't seen in the sport and he has the stories to match. In this episode he takes us back the early days, casting his mind back to the very first...

After a glorious night at the 02 me and Matt decided we needed to take a look back at what was a fantastic night for boxing. The build-up, the cast of characters, the fights, the atmosphere, it was all sensational. And it gave us a glimpse of what could be a very bright future. Desire + CapitalRyan and Jamie talking about people talking about Marx, and occasionally Marx himself....Listen on: Apple...

In this one me and Matt continue the build-up to the big Shields vs Marshall card in the company of Top Rank and ESPN commentator Crystina Poncher. Crystina's calling the fight for the US audience so was the perfect person to talk to about the card, the fighters and the significance of the event and we even had time to delve into the story behind her own boxing journey. She was great company, espe...

This week on Macklin's Take we're back in East London for the Shields vs Marshall/Mayer vs Baumgardner card at the 02.It's a huge week for this modern era of women's pro boxing and we had the good fortune to sit down with both WBO Middleweight champion Savannah Marshall ahead of her fight for Undisputed vs self-proclaimed GWOAT Claressa Shields and WBC Super Featherweight boss Alycia Baumgardner a...

What a day. At the time of recording the Board of Control had just decreed that as far as they were concerned Eubank vs Benn was "prohibited" and would not be going ahead. That came just a couple of hours after the promoters issued a joint statement saying that it would. Chaos. So we decided we needed to convene for an emergency pod. We were actually planning to do one today anyway previewing the...

This week me and Matt are joined by Hall of Fame boxing writer and friend of the pod Thomas Hauser. I bumped into Thomas at York Hall a couple of weeks ago. It was his first visit to one of British boxing's finest institutions so we thought we'd better check in with him and see how he enjoyed it. It wasn't all we discussed of course. TV was the main talking point. The pros and cons of exclusive de...

This week on Macklin's Take we're joined by the legend that is Colonel Bob Sheridan. The Colonel has been calling fights since the 1960s, over 10,000 for TV radio in total, and has been ringside for most of the sport's biggest bouts over that period: The Rumble in the Jungle, the Thriller in Manila, Tyson Douglas in Tokyo,  The Bite fight, to name just a few. And that's not all he's done, amazingl...

This week we're joined by Clifton Mitchell, a man who's career in boxing has served him up more experiences than most. He boxed as a pro, out of the famous Ingle gym, taking the ring moniker of Paddy O'Reilly. As soon as he hung up the gloves he opened his own gym, the One Nation in Derby, that's going strong 25 years later. He also started the most successful boxing security firm in the UK.Oh, an...