If we are to buy into and believe all that the media are selling - then this episode should be brough to you from a doomsday shelter! But this is a busy spell for boxing and in particular for Irish boxing. IN this episode: 🥊  We look back over the weekend fights which included Jono Carroll v Scott Quigg, Steven Donnelly, Fredo Meli, Rohan Date, Vladimir Beljuski, Steve Collins jr and TJ Doheny. 🥊 We welcome 2 lads who will face each other on Saturday in the House of Blues - Boston, Ray Moylette and Larry Fryers as they look ahead towards their battle. Also joining the episode is Gorey 🥊 Heavyweight Niall Kennedy who was due to top the bill on the same night but was forec out through injury. 🥊AND we have a special feature and look ahead to the olympic qualifiers in London as team Ireland fly out to stake their claims for places at the Tokyo olympics in the Summer.

This weeks guests are again dotted in different locations around the world but all hail from Ireland. Rohan Date is a Waterford native who trained in the Hight Performance unit for many years and boxed in the Irish vest around the world. Since turning pro he has continued to travel and box in and is now 11-0 as pro. Rohan joins this episode to chat about all that and more and of his fight on Friday night in Ceasers Palace, Dubai. And the McKenna brothers are of course from County Monaghan but have been relocated to Los Angeles since 2017 as they climb the ladders of the professional ranks. Recently they announced their new trainer to be hall of famer Freddie Roach and they chatted with Al on Sunday evening about their career to date and what lies ahead. We hear Al's story of how he managed to buy tickets for Carl Frampton's huge fight with Scott Quigg 4 years ago - and there's a wrap up of boxing news Irish and International

If the sports world can be described as a jungle - then heavyweight boxing is the Amazon. A week on from the huge tussle between the 2 apex predators Nick Nunan returns take a look back over the fight that settled all arguments over who's the best heavyweight on the planet. 🥊We also have Belfast's Dee Taggart and his fighter Junior Thompson ahead of Junior's second pro fight Friday night. 🥊 And Ally McKenzie of Sideline films drops in on the podcast to chat before and after the Golden Contract fights in York Hall last weekend. Ally also talks about his 2 hugely popular films recently aired on tv (links below) And Limerick super lightweight Lee Reeves chatted to us this morning just before the weigh in for his fight in Newcastle Saturday night. He talks about his training in Wincobank under Dom Ingle and more. And there's a round up of the news and fight announcements around the boxing world. 🥊 The Search: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0c10thv 🥊 The Void https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07zr0xt www.endswellboxingpodcast.com 🥊*** SUBSCRIBE - LIKE -REVIEW in iTunes - follow this link: https://apple.co/2ZUcVdH ▶ INSTAGRAM: //http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingInsta ▶ TWITTER: http://bit.ly/EndswellTwitter ▶ FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingFB Don't miss our tribute videos and audio episodes converted for your listening pleasure also 🥊Youtube: http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingYT TREE OF HOPE Leading the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. Please follow this link and support Tree of Hope whatever way you can. Whether its by taking a pack and building a community area at your club or running a fundraiser. Whatever you can do to help the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. ▶️http://bit.ly/2WdhriITreeofHope

Its Saturday and THE two best heavyweight behemoths of this era are set to cement their place in history regardless of how good the fight is! In this 3rd and final preview episode of the week as we hear from a trio of world champions. 🥊 Irish & Belfast legend Wayne McCollough returns to talk about how he thinks this one is won and lost andn Al asks him how media demands are likely to effect the fighters. 🥊 2 weight world champ and current Showtime boxing analyst Paulie Malinaggi comes on to talk about the fight, Olympic boxing and his beloved Juventus. 🥊 And Dublin legend, former middleweight world champ Jim Rock also comes back for his feelings and thoughts on the biggest fight of this era so far. 🥊Ciaran McIvor from Boxing Bants is on also as we look over the whole build up and how we believe it will unfold. www.endswellboxingpodcast.com 🥊*** SUBSCRIBE - LIKE -REVIEW in iTunes - follow this link: https://apple.co/2ZUcVdH ▶ INSTAGRAM: //http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingInsta ▶ TWITTER: http://bit.ly/EndswellTwitter ▶ FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingFB Don't miss our tribute videos and audio episodes converted for your listening pleasure also 🥊Youtube: http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingYT TREE OF HOPE Leading the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. Please follow this link and support Tree of Hope whatever way you can. Whether its by taking a pack and building a community area at your club or running a fundraiser. Whatever you can do to help the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. ▶️http://bit.ly/2WdhriITreeofHope

This Saturday night THE two best heavyweight behemoths of this era will cement their place in history regardless of how good the fight is! This is our second preview episode of the week as we hear from retired Dublin super heavyweight and owner/trainer at Champions Gym, Lanzarote - Jon O'Brien on the changes facing young fighters as they transition to the pro ranks. He also tells us how he thinks the big one will go. We also welcome former heavyweight boxer, close friend and former sparring partner of Deontay Wilder - Richard Towers. Richard is in the unique position of having also worked closely with Andy Lee and Adam Booth as they prepped and subsequently won the Middleweight world title against Matt Korobov. Richard also tells us of how he came to box on an Irish pro licence, his time with Brendan Ingle and much more. www.endswellboxingpodcast.com 🥊*** SUBSCRIBE - LIKE -REVIEW in iTunes - follow this link: https://apple.co/2ZUcVdH ▶ INSTAGRAM: //http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingInsta ▶ TWITTER: http://bit.ly/EndswellTwitter ▶ FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingFB Don't miss our tribute videos and audio episodes converted for your listening pleasure also 🥊Youtube: http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingYT TREE OF HOPE Leading the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. Please follow this link and support Tree of Hope whatever way you can. Whether its by taking a pack and building a community area at your club or running a fundraiser. Whatever you can do to help the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. ▶️http://bit.ly/2WdhriITreeofHope

When we think of all the truly fantastic female fighters we have seen in the sport over the years - names such as Deirdre Gogarty, Chrissy Martin, Lucia Rijker & Holly Holme all fought with distinction in the US yet in the UK, Ireland and many parts of Europe blocked females from participating and in some cases went out of their way to prevent it ever becoming a possibility. One lady took on the establishment, one lady went to court and one lady won the right to fight & made it possible for the Katie Taylor's, Terri Harper's, Savanah Marshall and countless others to follow their dreams in a boxing ring. That lady is Jane Couch and she joins the episode to talk about some of her experiences. And joining us from the Deep South of Togher boxing club Co. Cork is the precautious talented Leanne Murphy to speak about her passion and drive for the toughest sport around.   www.endswellboxingpodcast.com 🥊*** SUBSCRIBE - LIKE -REVIEW in iTunes - follow this link: https://apple.co/2ZUcVdH    ▶ INSTAGRAM: //http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingInsta ▶ TWITTER: http://bit.ly/EndswellTwitter ▶ FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingFB Don't miss our tribute videos and audio episodes converted for your listening pleasure also 🥊Youtube: http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingYT     TREE OF HOPE Leading the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. Please follow this link and support Tree of Hope whatever way you can. Whether its by taking a pack and building a community area at your club or running a fundraiser. Whatever you can do to help the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. ▶️http://bit.ly/2WdhriITreeofHope

This week the highlight is the latest collab with Australia's Nick Nunan (Fighthype.com & Nunanboy Promotions & DDP Promotions). There's a tribute to the late great Kobe Bryant, a look at the aftermath of Hogan/Charlo, the resurgence of boxing down under and much more. Francie Luzoho is also on to explain why he was excluded from last weeks Celtic Clash 10 cars and Al looks back over a busy weekend in Belfast & for Irish boxers everywhere.     Dorian Yates  - Raise The Vibration:  http://bit.ly/2OwMDaF www.endswellboxingpodcast.com *** SUBSCRIBE - LIKE -REVIEW in iTunes - follow this link: https://apple.co/2ZUcVdH INSTAGRAM: //http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingInsta TWITTER: http://bit.ly/EndswellTwitter FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingFB Don't miss our tribute videos and audio episodes converted for your listening pleasure also Youtube: http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingYT TREE OF HOPE Leading the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. Please follow this link and support Tree of Hope whatever way you can. Whether its by taking a pack and building a community area at your club or running a fundraiser. Whatever you can do to help the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. http://bit.ly/2WdhriITreeofHope      

Kieran Mulvanney describes himself as an a-typical boxing pundit yet he was part of that legendary HBO team which included names like  Jim Lampley, Larry Merchant and Harold Lederman. He talks candidly on this episode about trekking across Antarctica- about living on board a Greenpeace ship and battles with Japanese  vessels as they attempt to save those magnificent creatures of the deep.Kieran can quite easily name Castillo v Corales as the one which stands out most In his memory. But laughs as he recalls being jettisoned up to interview  Genady Golovkin before his rematch with Canelo when GGG refused to talk to Max Kellerman. The Void (Boxing Short Film;  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07zr0xt www.endswellboxingpodcast.com   PLEASE Subscribe, Like and Review on Itunes - Click this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/endswell-boxing-podcast/id14600674937493 Why not keep up to date with us on social media? 🥊 🥊 INSTAGRAM: //http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingInsta 🥊 TWITTER: http://bit.ly/EndswellTwitter 🥊 FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingFB Don't miss our podcast on all the major platforms. Our website has a HTML 5 Player embedded which plays off all mobile devices. If Youtube is your go to plave - then take a peeks at our  tribute videos and converted episodes for your listening pleasure als:   🥊Spotify:     http://bit.ly/spotfylink 🥊 Itunes:      apple.co/2ZUcVdH 🥊Youtube:    http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingYT TREE OF HOPE Leading the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. Please follow this link and support Tree of Hope whatever way you can. Whether its by taking a pack and building a community area at your club or running a fundraiser. Whatever you can do to help the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. http://bit.ly/2WdhriITreeofHope   The Void (Boxing Short Film;  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07zr0xt www.endswellboxingpodcast.com   PLEASE Subscribe, Like and Review on Itunes - Click this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/endswell-boxing-podcast/id14600674937493 Why not keep up to date with us on social media? 🥊 🥊 INSTAGRAM: //http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingInsta 🥊 TWITTER: http://bit.ly/EndswellTwitter 🥊 FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingFB Don't miss our podcast on all the major platforms. Our website has a HTML 5 Player embedded which plays off all mobile devices. If Youtube is your go to plave - then take a peeks at our  tribute videos and converted episodes for your listening pleasure als:   🥊Spotify:     http://bit.ly/spotfylink 🥊 Itunes:      apple.co/2ZUcVdH 🥊Youtube:    http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingYT TREE OF HOPE Leading the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. Please follow this link and support Tree of Hope whatever way you can. Whether its by taking a pack and building a community area at your club or running a fundraiser. Whatever you can do to help the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. http://bit.ly/2WdhriITreeofHope

January is a tough month for us all to navigate - but todays guest is the perfect example of determination, steely resolve and an unwillingness to give into adversity. Billy Schwer was a hugely popualar fighter who hailed from Luton and whos dad emigrated to Newmarket as an Irish featherweight champion and with hopes of mecoming a jockey. He settled in Luton and introdiced his 9 year old son to boxing - the first big introduction of his life, the second was to a man who became his coach, mentor and confidant for a pro career which saw him become British, Commonwealth, European AND World Lightweight champion. It wasn't all plain sailing though and Billy tells us about some of the bumps and potholes he hit along that road. www.endswellboxingpodcast.com  PLEASE Subscribe, Like and Review on Itunes - Click this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/endswell-boxing-podcast/id14600674937493 Why not keep up to date with us on social media? 🥊 🥊 INSTAGRAM: //http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingInsta 🥊 TWITTER: http://bit.ly/EndswellTwitter 🥊 FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingFB Don't miss our podcast on all the major platforms. Our website has a HTML 5 Player embedded which plays off all mobile devices. If Youtube is your go to plave - then take a peeks at our  tribute videos and converted episodes for your listening pleasure als:   🥊Spotify:     http://bit.ly/spotfylink 🥊 Itunes:      apple.co/2ZUcVdH 🥊Youtube:    http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingYT TREE OF HOPE Leading the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. Please follow this link and support Tree of Hope whatever way you can. Whether its by taking a pack and building a community area at your club or running a fundraiser. Whatever you can do to help the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. http://bit.ly/2WdhriITreeofHope

In this Christmas Eve special we look towards the impending holiday season and how  the Irish boxing landscape looks after a pretty hectic final quarter. My guests for this episode are - Dundalk boxer and newly crowned Irish Elite champion in the 64kg division - Evelyn Igharo. Evelyn talks about title number 14 and a 12 months that would delight pretty much any other fighter - if not herself! And my good pal, Limerick light Mddleweight Graham McCormack joins us to look at his ;ast 12 months, what its meant for his career and how its been for his home town of Limerick.   www.endswellboxingpodcast.com   PLEASE Subscribe, Like and Review on Itunes - Click this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/endswell-boxing-podcast/id14600674937493 Why not keep up to date with us on social media? 🥊 🥊 INSTAGRAM: //http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingInsta 🥊 TWITTER: http://bit.ly/EndswellTwitter 🥊 FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingFB Don't miss our podcast on all the major platforms. Our website has a HTML 5 Player embedded which plays off all mobile devices. If Youtube is your go to plave - then take a peeks at our  tribute videos and converted episodes for your listening pleasure als:   🥊Spotify:     http://bit.ly/spotfylink 🥊 Itunes:      apple.co/2ZUcVdH 🥊Youtube:    http://bit.ly/EndswellBoxingYT TREE OF HOPE Leading the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. Please follow this link and support Tree of Hope whatever way you can. Whether its by taking a pack and building a community area at your club or running a fundraiser. Whatever you can do to help the fight for Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention. http://bit.ly/2WdhriITreeofHope