Boxing Esq. Podcast #70 - Tris Dixon

Very happy to have as my guest this week one of the best boxing writers and podcasters in the business, Tris Dixon, author of the critically acclaimed Damage and the editor at boxingscene.com.

We discussed Tris’s journey from growing up in the woods of England to training as a boxer under Kevin Rooney in the Catskills and Matthew Saad Muhammad in New Jersey. We also talk about his transition into becoming a boxing writer and eventually being named editor at Boxing News. We talked about his excellent books - Road to Nowhere and Damage, which I highly recommend.

We analyzed the big fight card from this past Saturday featuring the fight for the undisputed light heavyweight title between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitri Bivol and we also discussed the continued rumors of a Saudi boxing league and Dana White’s potential involvement.

It was a great conversation - hope you enjoy it.

The Boxing Esq. Podcast · Boxing Esq. Podcast #70 - Tris Dixon

Boxing Esq. Podcast #69 - Scott Shaffer

I’m excited to have my good friend Scott Shaffer, partner at Olshan Frome Wolosky and senior writer at Boxingtalk, as my guest this week.

We go in-depth—count by count—on Devin Haney's recently filed lawsuit against Ryan Garcia, Scooter Honig, and Golden Boy in the Southern District of New York and compare it to similar cases in combat sports. We also talk about recent developments in the Matchroom v. Jake Paul defamation case, the class action filed against Floyd Mayweather by the dancers at Girl Collection, and the default judgment in the Heredia vs. MTK case.

We reviewed the Janibek Alimkhanuly and Nick Ball title defenses from this past weekend as well as the controversial Sandy Ryan- Mikaela Mayer fight from last weekend.

It was a great conversation - hope you enjoy it!

The Boxing Esq. Podcast · Boxing Esq. Podcast #69 - Scott Shaffer

Boxing Esq. Podcast #68 - Alan Dawson

I’m excited to have a ginormously long podcast this week with my guest, one of the best young boxing writers in the game, Mr. Alan Dawson from World Boxing News.

We talked about Alan’s career beginnings in London writing about soccer and his eventual move to Business Insider, where he wrote an excellent investigative article on Daniel Kinahan. We cover his move to Las Vegas and his current writing and production gigs including his current position at World Boxing News. We go deep into this past fight week in Las Vegas and compare the buzz generated by the competing promotions - Canelo vs. Berlanga and UFC Noche. We talk about Dana White’s possible future involvement in boxing via Turki Alalsheikh. We go through the results of the Canelo-Berlanga card. We talk about what’s next for PBC and we preview this weekend’s Joshua-Dubois card in Alan’s old stomping grounds in London, England.

It was a great conversation. Hope you enjoy it.

The Boxing Esq. Podcast · Boxing Esq. Podcast #68 - Alan Dawson

Boxing Esq. Podcast #67 - Brian Campbell

Fired the hell up to have one of my all-time favorite boxing podcasters and commentators on the pod, the man, the myth, the combat sport evangelist - BC - Brian Campbell, from the Morning Kombat show - which he co-hosts brilliantly along with Luke Thomas and the newly minted Brian Campbell Experience which I highly recommend you catch on YouTube.

We talked about BC’s journey in boxing from his humble beginnings in Naugatuck, CT to ESPN, Grantland, CBS, and Showtime boxing. We talked about his days as a podcaster with Rafe Bartholomew on the State of Combat and the infamous soundboard, and how he met Luke Thomas and from there Morning Kombat was born. We also got into his commentating career and his gigs at Ring City and the legendary ShoBox. We then discussed the fights on Saturday that he will cover for PBC - Canelo vs Edgar Berlanga, Erislandy Lara-Danny Garcia, Caleb Plant-Trevor McCumby and Rolly Romero’s comeback fight. We also talked a little bit about our man Turki and what direction the sport will go in 2025.

As always with BC, it was a fun and informative conversation - hope you enjoy.

The Boxing Esq. Podcast · Boxing Esq. Podcast #67 - Brian Campbell

Boxing Esq. Podcast #66 - Eric Raskin

Excited to have one of my all-time favorite boxing writers on the pod this week, Eric Raskin from boxingscene.com (formerly of the excellent Interim Champion Boxing podcast with his longtime podcast partner Kieran Mulvaney).

We talked about Eric’s pathway in the sport starting at Ring and KO magazines and branching out to ESPN, Grantland, HBO, and Showtime boxing. We then get into one of his most recent articles about the Saudi "Supercard" from this past Saturday and how maybe we should rethink these so that they don’t last eight hours and have so much fawning over Turki Alalshikh. We then discuss the actual fights on Saturday - Terence Crawford’s narrow win over Israel Madrimov for the WBA Jr. Middleweight crown, Jose Valenzuela’s upset over Pitbull Cruz, the heavyweight clashes between Andy Ruiz vs. Jarrell Miller and Martin Bakole vs. Jared Anderson as well as David Morell and Andy Cruz’s victories.

It was a really fun conversation with Eric. Hope you enjoy.

The Boxing Esq. Podcast · Boxing Esq. Podcast #66 - Eric Raskin

Boxing Esq. Podcast #65 - Tim Smith

Great conversation with Tim Smith from the PBC. We spoke about the card on Saturday, PBC's relationship with the Saudis, what's next for Tank Davis, Tim Tszyu, Caleb Plant, and Stephen Fulton, tentative timing for Fundora-Spence, and the "free fights" on Amazon.

Enjoy!

The Boxing Esq. Podcast · Boxing Esq Podcast #65 - Tim Smith

Boxing Esq. Podcast #64 - Matt Christie

This week's guest is one of my favorite boxing writers, Mr. Matt Christie. Matt was until recently the editor of the longest-running boxing publication in the business - Boxing News. He’s now a contributing writer to boxingscene.com and does an excellent podcast with Alex Steedman called The Opening Bell.

Matt and I discussed his back story, and interest in the sport as well as his career path to Boxing News. We also discussed this past weekend’s IBF welterweight title fight involving one of the rising stars in the sport - Jaron “Boots” Ennis.

We then went over a six-part series of articles that Matt recently published on BoxingScene that he deemed "Boxing Utopia". These articles focused on improvements Matt would like to see happen in the sport - including one world champion per division, the use of the Transnational Boxing Ratings, as the official ratings of the sport, having controversial decisions be both appealable and overturnable, more investment in the grassroots and for our fallen retired heroes and a tougher more cogent anti-doping policy for the sport.

I love talking about boxing reform, so this was a great conversation. Hope you enjoy it.

The Boxing Esq. Podcast · Boxing Esq. Podcast #64 - Matt Christie