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 of British boxing history.Boxers, promoters, referees, trainers, commentators and journalists relive their own personal highs and lows as the past, present and future of York Hall are explored in detail.Written and produced by Darren Rees Engineered at: Untapped talent recording studios (Southampton) Please get in contact with your York Hall memories via Twitter: @ReesBoxing89 or theopeningbellpodcast@gmail.com

Macklin's Take - Boxing Podcast

The spiritual home of british boxing

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&apos;ve decided on MT that the pandemic is over, we&apos;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 ?

Macklin's Take #130 with Joe Gallagher

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&apos;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&apos;s now back on the front line with Fight Zone too so we also had a good chat about that.

Macklin's Take #129 with Dennis Hobson

This week me and Matt welcome back our Franchise champion, the one and only Jon Pegg.Macklin&apos;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&apos;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 on the team sheet, as he&apos;s definitely a man who can find the humour in almost any situation.

Macklin's Take #128 with Jon Pegg

This week on Macklin&apos;s Take me and Matt are joined by Mike Altamura.Mike is a genuine boxing insider; a matchmaker, agent and fixer, he&apos;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&apos;s got one of those great, "only in boxing" kind of stories and it was tremendous fun hearing it.Macklin&apos;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

Macklin's Take #127 with Mike Altamura

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&apos;t be happening because Tyson would have to first give Deontay Wilder a third fight.It was a huge story, the biggest of Chris&apos; career to date so we were keen to know how it came about and just what it&apos;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 daily edition with the more modern approach demanded by the instant digital platform.The conversation went in all sorts of directions and we finished off with a good chat about the Matchroom/DAZN news, which had been confirmed the day we recorded this with Chris.Macklin&apos;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

Macklin's Take #126 with Chris McKenna

This week on Macklin&apos;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&apos;s called Damage; The Untold Story of Brain Trauma in Boxing. It&apos;s a must read for everyone who really cares about the sport, absolutely everyone. It&apos;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.And we also took him back to his early days as a journalist, including his treks to all corners of the USA in search of old champions. It was great fun.Macklin&apos;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

Macklin's Take #125 with Tris Dixon

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&apos;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&apos;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

Macklin's Take #124 with Carl Frampton

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&apos;d managed to drive his career to the brink of a world title shot.A couple of months later he&apos;s now 16-0 and the new IBF Flyweight champion of the world after dethroning Moruti Mthalane, a man who hadn&apos;t lost since 2008, in immaculate style.That ladies and gentlemen is the power of Macklin&apos;s Take :)But seriously, we had to get Sunny back on the pod to hear all about that night and how life has been for him since realising his lifelong dream.Macklin&apos;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

Macklin's Take #123 with IBF Flyweight champion of the world Sunny Edwards

This week me & Matt welcome Carl Greaves to the podcast.Carl&apos;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&apos;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.

Macklin's Take #122 with Carl Greaves

This week on Macklin&apos;s Take...It&apos;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&apos;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&apos;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

Macklin's Take #121 with Carl Froch

It&apos;s Chisora vs Parker at the weekend so we though we&apos;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&apos;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 we were only too happy to let him in!Macklin&apos;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

Macklin's Take #120 with Andy Lee (plus a surprise guest appearance from Adam Booth)

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&apos;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&apos;s known them all so it was an absolute pleasure to talk to him about his life following the Noble Art.Jerry&apos;s book, Once There Were Giants, the Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing comes out in paperback on May 11th and is available now for pre-order via Amazon.

Macklin's Take #119 with Jerry Izenberg

This week on Macklin&apos;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, 1971, when the eyes of the world were firmly fixed on that squared circle just feet way from him.Macklin&apos;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

Macklin's Take #118 - The Big Fight Deep Dive - The Fight of the Century with Alan Hubbard

This week on Macklin&apos;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&apos;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

Macklin's Take #117 with Michael McKinson

My name's Andy Clarke and I'm a boxing commentator and pundit, mainly for Sky Sports. This page is the home of a boxing podcast me and 3-time world title challenger and Sky colleague Matt Macklin are doing called Macklin's Take. Topical debate, big name guests and boxing insiders, we'll bring you all of it. Hope you enjoy it,

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Macklin's Take - Boxing Podcast

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