The higher you climb, the more people you need to give a cut of the cheque to. Michael ‘Gomez’ Armstrong once showed up back at his local pub, in Moston, Manchester, and put his fight cheque behind the bar to cover the tab for all those inside. The last bodies peeled out in the early […]
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“Big fights are going to happen, but there is so much bullshit that they are going to have to navigate.” Lou DiBella has been in the fight game for the past three decades and has, over the years, worked with big names such as Bernard Hopkins, Paulie Malignaggi and Andre Berto. If there a big fight […]
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Katie Taylor is the biggest name in women’s boxing, but she could do with a big rivalry for her career to really take off. Right now, the likely candidates are Amanda Serrano, Mikaela Mayer and Jessica McCaskill, whom Katie Taylor has already beaten on her steady rise in the professional game. Promoter Lou DiBella is […]
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“The next instruction I gave her was, ‘No doubles! Just pints, beers, singles and let’s see how long this goes’.” Carl Frampton would have understandably had second thoughts about covering the bar tab after this wild night in Belfast. On the latest episode of TKO, author and journalist Donald McRae joined Frampton and host Chris […]
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“Boxing really is like my bad boyfriend.” The day before Katie Taylor won gold at the London Olympics, in August 2012, Heather Hardy struck out as a professional boxer. Heather Hardy was 30 years old, unemployed and had just been through a divorce. She had majored in Forensic Psychology at College of Criminal, Manhattan but had […]
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McRae’s latest book looks at how boxing helped ease tensions during the Troubles On Round 18 of TKO, Chris Lloyd and Carl Frampton were joined by journalist and sportswriter Donald McRae, author of some of the best boxing books of all time, including A Man’s World: The Double Life of Emile Griffith and Dark Trade: Lost In Boxing. […]
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