Macklin's Take - Boxing Podcast

This week we sit down with top trainer and friend of the pod Peter Fury. It's always great fun having a chat with Peter, someone who knows the boxing game inside out and is never afraid to say exactly what he thinks. It was our first time recording in person with our guest for a good while, it really is great to be back :) Desire + CapitalRyan and Jamie talking about people talking about Marx, and...

After abandoning you for nine months me and Matt Macklin are back and all over you like a cheap suit with our second pod in two days! With the talks around the Fury vs AJ potential mega fight hitting the boxing world like a lightning bolt we thought we'd better get together for a chat. Could it really happen? It looks like it really could. Desire + CapitalRyan and Jamie talking about people talkin...

Well it is a comeback really :)After a long nine months away Macklin's Take is back! We never intended to be absent for so long but there was never any chance we wouldn't return so thanks everyone for your patience. And thanks for all the messages we got from people telling us we needed to get our s*** together and get back to it, you were absolutely right of course. We'll be doing our best to bri...

This week on Macklin's Take me and Matt welcomed new British Light Heavyweight champion Dan Azeez to the podcast. Dan turned in a dazzling display a couple of weeks back to claim the Lonsdale belt and having already won the Southern Area and English titles has done it the traditional way. He's an old school fighter who, like his hero Marvelous Marvin Hagler, just wants to give the public the fight...

It's the Return of the King :)Our Franchise champion, the one and only Jon Pegg, had a brief sojourn in hospital recently so we thought the perfect tonic for him would be another appearance on MT.And he was on fine form as usual. We got into a number of subjects, including what it's like running small hall shows post Covid, something Jon's doing with great success, and why it is that although ever...

This week me and Matt welcome back to the pod our good friend; top trainer, manager and now also promoter, Mr Joe Gallagher. And Joe was bang on form :)We went deep into a few different topics: The current UK promotional and broadcast battlegrounds, the seemingly lost art of talent spotting and with Anthony Joshua touring US gyms recently in search of a new trainer we asked Joe what he felt AJ nee...

After being away for the last couple of week's at the Men's World Amateur Championships in Belgrade me and Matt decided to delve deep into the amateur code in this episode. We wanted to talk about all levels, from club to country to elite international level, and we wanted someone with some longevity too, someone who's been around the sport for longer than us and who basically knows better than us...

This week me and Matt are joined by top boxing manager Sam Jones. Sam has become a very familiar figure with British fight fans over the last few years and someone we've seen around a lot. But we only ever really knew him just to say hello to so thought it was time we found out a bit more about the man who co-founded the very successful SJAM an who has recently become one of Probellum's big new si...

After the Fury vs Wilder trilogy concluded in Las Vegas at the weekend, just two weeks after we saw Usyk beat Joshua, we decided it was time to delve into the Heavyweight division and see how the land lies now those 2 results are in. We were both at Spurs for AJ whilst I was lucky enough to be at the T Mobile last Saturday too. It's been some fortnight. Desire + CapitalRyan and Jamie talking about...

This week on Macklin's Take me and Matt park up for an hour with Robert Smith, General Secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control. We see Robert ringside all the time and have meant to get him on the pod for ages, to get the inside track on what it's like working for the sport's oldest and best governing body; the highs, the lows, the ups, the downs, the tears and the laughter. It was great...

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 reco...

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...

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 ide...

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...

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 mo...

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...

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 newspape...

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 co...

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 ringsid...

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 ge...

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. Desir...

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 pr...

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 ce...

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, Li...

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 D...