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Iron Mike Tyson's opponent has not been finalized yet, but one rumoured opponent has been Barry Hall, a retired professional Australian rules footballer turned boxer. He doesn't know if he'll get his opportunity to share a ring with one of the greatest to ever put on the gloves, but he certainly isn't backing away from the challenge. Follow us on Instagram @ringsideboxingshow Intro music by MGJBeats

Ashton "H20" Sylve isn't a regular 16 year old. He's not just a boxing prospect, he is THE boxing prospect. Don't confuse the young man's humbleness and quietness for a lack of confidence. A quick look at his Instagram shows why he's being called the next Floyd Mayweather. A 10X National 2X International Champion, Sylve plans to be around for a long time. Oh, and did we mention his uncle is Snoop Dogg?  Follow us on Instagram @ringsideboxingshow Intro music by MGJBeats

Instagram boxing influencer Jack (@boxingfinesse) joins RBS to discuss the current heavyweight landscape and why Tyson Fury is the best of the crop. He also discusses who suffers the most from the COVID-19 fallout and what the pandemic could mean for boxing this year. Follow us on Instagram @ringsideboxingshow Intro music by MGJBeats

Before his son's fight with Richard Commey, Teofimo Lopez Sr., promises Teo Jr. would knockout Commey easily (he did) and that he will DESTROY Vasyl Lomachenko when they meet. Follow us on Instagram @ringsideboxingshow

 Was Jesus Christ a boxing fan?  Jesus of Nazareth walked the Earth at the same time, in the same general region, as the greatest boxer of that era, Demokrates, who won the Olympia (now known as the Olympics) three times and was one of the most-famous men alive. Did Demokrates know about Jesus? Not likely. Is it possible that Jesus knew about Demokrates? There's little doubt. Our extraordinary boxing historian, Christopher James Shelton, shares some astonishing information about what boxing was like in the First Century, AD, the fighter who was the Muhammad Ali of his time, and other remarkable facts that he's uncovered through dedicated research. (Is boxing mentioned in the bible? Yep.) Enjoy this incredible interview with Chris Shelton on a very special edition of The Ringside Boxing Show.  

J. Russell Peltz: 50 memorable years as Philly's legendary promoter By Dennis Taylor We spend a colorful hour with the legendary J. Russell Peltz, an East Coast boxing icon who promoted his first fight 50 years ago in Philadelphia at the age of 22, and made stars out of Bennie Briscoe, Eugene ‘Cyclone’ Hart, Bobby ‘Boogaloo’ Watts, Stanley ‘Kitten’ Hayward, Mike Rossman, Jeff Chandler, Matthew Saad Muhammad, Dwight Muhammad Qawi, Marvin Johnson, Arturo Gatti, and Marvin Hagler, among countless others. This is an interview for the time capsule. This is our interview with Russell Peltz only. To hear the full 2-hour version of The Ringside Boxing Show, visit this link: https://thegruelingtruth.com/?s=ringside+boxing+show  Dennis Taylor is host of The Ringside Boxing Show, editor/publisher of www.ringsideboxingshow.com, and co-author (with John J. Raspanti) of “Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy,” an Amazon bestseller.

The amazing tale of Elizabeth Wilkinson Stokes, first known pro female fighter, 1722-1728 By Dennis Taylor She lived in the days of Johann Sebastian Bach, Benjamin Franklin, and Sir Isaac Newton. She may have stood six feet tall. She usually fought men -- both bare-knuckle and mixed martial arts -- and there's no indication that she ever lost. Our inimitable boxing historian, Christopher James Shelton, joins us on The Ringside Boxing Show to tell the true story of Elizabeth Wilkinson Stokes, who fought professionally in England in an era when rules were sparse and the level of mayhem was high. She claimed to be the wife of a notorious London murderer, Robert Wilkinson (executed in 1722), and became famous as a pugilist throughout England. She foughts solo and sometimes as a team with Robert Stokes, an MMA and fistfighter in his own right.  Join us for this colorful and rarely told tale of one of the most interesting figures in the history of combat sports, told by the preeminent boxing historian of our generation.  

In depth with Dmitriy Salita: Contender turned promoter Contender-turned-promoter Dmitriy Salita gives us an inside peek at the cutthroat world of boxing promotion, and tells us what to expect from an impressive stable of fighters he’s gathered under the Brooklyn-based Salita Promotions banner. This is our Dmitriy Salita interview only. To hear the full version of any Ringside Boxing Show (recorded every Sunday), visit this link: https://thegruelingtruth.com/?s=ringside+boxing+show Dennis Taylor is host of The Ringside Boxing Show, editor/publisher of www.ringsideboxingshow.com, and co-author (with John J. Raspanti) of “Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy,” an Amazon bestseller.

Gene 'Mad Dog' Hatcher: King of White Settlement, Texas Meet slow-talkin’ Texan Gene “Mad Dog” Hatcher, a deep-fried character who won the WBA’s super lightweight crown in 1984 with an 11th-round KO of Johnny “Bump City” Bumphis, a 4-1 betting favorite. “Mad Dog” regales us with multiple colorful stories from a 14-year career that included battles with Aaron “Superman” Davis, Frankie Warren, Lloyd Honeyghan, Alfredo Escalera, Ubaldo Sacco and others, and also tells us the chilling tale of how close he came to suicide after his star faded. This is the Gene Hatcher interview only. To hear the full version of any Ringside Boxing Show (recorded every Sunday), visit this link: https://thegruelingtruth.com/?s=ringside+boxing+show Dennis Taylor is hot of The Ringside Boxing Show, editor/publisher of www.ringsideboxingshow.com, and co-author (with John J. Raspanti) of “Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy,” an Amazon bestseller.

Pinklon Thomas' death-defying youth and meteoric career WBC heavyweight king Pinklon Thomas describes what it was like to be a heroin addict at 12, a high school dropout at 15, and a strong-armed robber who literally had a contract on his head as a teenager. All of that before he threw the first punch in a boxing career that included fights with Tyson, Holyfield, Bowe, Morrison, Witherspoon, Weaver, Tillis, Coetzee and Berbick. How is this man still alive to tell his story? Honestly, he’s not sure. This is the Pinklon Thomas interview only. To hear the full version of The Ringside Show (recorded every Sunday), visit this link: https://thegruelingtruth.com/?s=ringside+boxing+show Dennis Taylor is host of The Ringside Boxing Show, editor-publisher of www.ringsideboxingshow.com, and co-author (with John J. Raspanti) of “Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy,” an Amazon bestseller.

Michael Bentt beat 'Tommy Gun' in real life, played Sonny Liston on the big screen Meet the man who needed just 93 seconds of his 12th pro fight to win the WBO heavyweight crown from Tommy Morrison (38-1, 34 KOs at the time), saw his career end when he nearly died in his very next outing, and went on to become a Hollywood actor who played Sonny Liston (opposite Will Smith) in the big-screen production,”Ali.” Brace yourself for an entertaining hour-long interview with Michael Bentt. Listen to the full version of The Ringside Boxing Show (recorded every Sunday) at this link: https://thegruelingtruth.com/?s=ringside+boxing+show Dennis Taylor is host of The Ringside Boxing Show, editor/publisher of www.ringsideboxingshow.com, and co-author (with John J. Raspanti) of “Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward Boxing Trilogy.”

'No chance it goes 12!' and other forecasts from Teofimo Lopez about the Commey fight We talk in-depth on this week's show with one of the P4P personalities in the sport, Teofimo Lopez Jr., who puts his perfect record on the line Dec. 14 at Madison Square Garden when he challenges fellow knockout artist Richard Commey for the IBF’s 135-pound world title belt. Teofimo, a human fireworks show in and out of the ring, delivers another scintillating interview to The Ringside Boxing Show. Enjoy! NOTE: This is the Teofimo Lopez interview only. To listen to the entire Ringside Boxing Show, visit this link: https://thegruelingtruth.com/?s=ringside+boxing+show  

Mancini vs. Kim: Re-visiting a classic and tragic war Before he left South Korea to challenge Ray Mancini for the world lightweight title, Duk-Koo Kim promised his pregnant fiance that one of them would die in the fight. He punctuated that prediction with two additional symbols of his intent — a coffin he kept next to the ring during training camp, and a lampshade he brought with him to Las Vegas embossed with an ominous message written in Korean. What happened in the ring at Caesars Palace 37 years ago changed the lives of both fighters, Kim’s mother, and referee Richard Green. The story of the infamous and tragic Kim-Mancini fight is one of multiple stories told by Dr. Jonathan Gelber in a sensational new sports book, entitled “Tiger Woods’ Back and Tommy John’s Elbow: Injuries and Tragedies that Transformed Careers, Sports, and Society.” Dr. Gelber, a sports medicine doctor and orthopedic surgeon, joins us this week for an in-depth preview of his book, which also delves into Lyle Alzado’s belief that steroid use caused his malignant brain tumor, the deaths of college basketball superstars Len Bias and Hank Gathers, the fatal crashes of auto racing legends Ayrton Senna and Dale Earnhardt Sr., the NFL’s obsession with protecting its star quarterbacks, how Tiger Woods’ “perfect” swing destroyed his spine and diminished his career, the elbow surgery that saved Tommy John and countless baseball players who followed, and much more. This is the interview with our featured guest. To listen to The Ringside Boxing Show in its entirety, visit this link: https://thegruelingtruth.com/?s=ringside+boxing+show

The epic fall and resurrection of ex-champ Donny Lalonde Former WBC light heavyweight champion Donny Lalonde parlayed his ninth-grade education (he left home at 15) into brilliant real-estate acquisitions that made him the owner of five houses at age 23, and $6.4 million in personal holdings by 2003.  And then it all went haywire, through little or no fault of his own, when he unwittingly became tangled in a maddening quagmire of international finance that became known as The Panama Papers scandal. Lalonde joins us on this week's Ringside Boxing Show to unwrap the 16-year (and ongoing) nightmare that drove him into bankruptcy, put his life at risk, and gave him dark fantasies of sprinting between the headlights of oncoming semi trucks while he was jogging. Canada's "Golden Boy" has much of the debacle sorted out today, and eagerly tells the story of how his good name was besmirched in a quagmire that will be the subject of a forthcoming major motion picture. This is the Donny Lalonde interview only. The full version of The Ringside Boxing Show can be heard every Sunday at this link: https://thegruelingtruth.com/?s=ringside+boxing+show     

An interview for the ages with all-time great Carlos Palomino Carlos Palomino's first amateur fight was against an inmate at Chino State Prison. He won the WBC welterweight championship from England's John H. Stracey in front of a sold-out crowd (with 10,000 more waiting outside) at the famed Olympic Auditorium in L.A. He fought one of the greatest fights in history against Armando Muniz, battled Jose Napoles, Hedgemon Lewis, Roberto Duran, Wilfredo Benitez. He was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame, the International Boxing Hall of Fame, the California Boxing Hall of Fame, and the West Coast Boxing Hall of Fame. He became an actor with roles on "Taxi," "The White Shadow," "Star Trek: Voyager" and some of the most-beloved beer commercials of all time. We share a story-packed hour with this iconic superstar, who reminisces about his life and career, and also talks candidly about the modern-day boxing scene. This is the Carlos Palomino interview only. To hear the complete version of any Ringside Boxing Show, visit this link: https://thegruelingtruth.com/?s=ringside+boxing+show   

Bloody-good interview with Swedish heavyweight Otto Wallin, the 30-1 underdog who nearly brought down Tyson Fury We go all the way to Sweden to interview Otto Wallin, the Swedish heavyweight who nearly defied 30-1 underdog status, almost upsetting Tyson Fury in Las Vegas on Sept. 14. Wallin talks in-depth about his life and career, and also tells us what it's like to trade punches with the sport's undefeated, 6-foot 9-inch behemoth in the biggest fight of his life.   To hear the full version of The Ringside Boxing Show every week, visit this link: https://thegruelingtruth.com/?s=ringside+boxing+show

Teofimo Lopez Sr., boxing's 5-alarm fire, ignites our podcast with a 45-minute boil over Haters dissed Teofimo Lopez’s unanimous-decision victory over unbeaten Masayoshi Nakatani in July as a sluggish, unimpressive performance — a characterization that inflames his trainer/father, Teofimo Sr., into a full boil. The volatile patriarch joins us on this week’s Ringside Boxing Show for an explosive conversation that unapologetically takes on Teofimo’s former nutritionist, sister, mother, Vasilly Lomachenko, Richard Commey, Bob Arum, ESPN analysts Timothy Bradley and Andre Ward, judges at the 2016 Olympics, and “90 percent of boxing fans who don’t know sh** about boxing.” Lessons were learned against Nakatani, though, and Teofimo Sr. predicts the total obliteration of Commey, who defends his IBF lightweight title against Teo Jr. on Dec. 14 at Madison Square Garden. And that, he says, will only be a preview of what the undefeated lightweight will do next year to the legend and legacy of Lomachenko, considered by many to be the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world. Get out your fire extinguishers, Ringside Nation — Teofimo Sr. is en fuego.

A treat from our archives: Angelo Dundee gives the final in-depth interview of his illustrious life We replay one of our all-time greatest interviews, an in-depth conversation from 2011 with legendary trainer Angelo Dundee, who tells amazing stories about Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Willie Pastrano, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Ray Arcel, ducking bullets during the Cuban Revolution, and much more. Dundee died four months later. This may well have been the final in-depth interview of Angelo Dundee’s illustrious life, and we were proud to have been a part of it.

Broke, but not broken, three-time champ Bobby Czyz (still brilliant) explains why he's still standing Few people have survived the kind of roller-coaster ride that has been the life of Bobby Czyz: Two serious automobile accidents (one kept him off a plane that crashed, killing all of his Team USA amateur teammates; the other put him in a hospital for seven weeks, a coma for 28 days), his father’s suicide, his riches-to-rags tumble after he was fired as Showtime’s ringside analyst, and multiple other potentially debilitating incidents. Czyz, a member of MENSA (recognition that his IQ tests among the top 2% in the world), joins us on this week’s Ringside Boxing Show to explain how he endured the many valleys in his life — the latest of which had him working a $250-a-week job at a New Jersey grocery store. He also hints that he may soon be analyzing fights again at ringside for a major TV network. Czyz also explains why he’s an atheist. To listen to the full version of The Ringside Boxing Show every week, visit this link: https://thegruelingtruth.com/?s=ringside+boxing+show 

In-depth with International Boxing Hall of Famer Donald Curry Enjoy a wide-ranging conversation with an all-time great, International Boxing Hall of Famer Donald Curry, about his remarkable career and life. Hear the full version of The Ringside Boxing Show every week at this link: https://thegruelingtruth.com/podcast/ringside-boxing-show-you-might-not-live-long-enough-to-see-another-one-like-loma-plus-in-depth-with-all-time-great-donald-curry/