Punching High Podcast

This week it's two for the price of one as we talk travel with former world middleweight champ Darren Barker and his new heavyweight pupil Dave Allen. We hear about handy taxi rides in Warsaw, sparring Kessler in Copenhagen, life in the Alps with the Klitschkos and why Cleethorpes will never be bettered.

This week we meet an extraordinary fighter. He's a former fighter, a current trainer of amateur and pro fighters and he's a firefighter. He fights for the welfare of disadvantaged kids - using boxing to provide opportunities. Along with all that, Nigel Travis is also an actor who is usually cast as...... a fighter. We went to Moss Side to find out more about the man also known as Captain Chaos....

This edition is all about the the widely regarding nicest man in boxing, Anthony ‘Million Dollar’ Crolla. As proud a Mancunian as you could ever hope to meet, Crolla’s getting ready for a proposed dream fight with the remarkable Visiliy Lomachenko. He’s hoping that’ll be confirmed as Madison Square Garden very soon. He’s already enjoyed and endured some interesting times on the road, as he told us here on Punching High.

This week we catch up with Tommy 'Boom Boom' Coyle. This proud son of Hull last year claimed the Commonwealth lightweight title before going on to make a winning US debut. As entertaining out of the ring as in it, hear his tales from Vegas, naked wrestling in Tenerife and why he'd shun a naked Beyonce......

We are back after the Christmas and New Year break!    Punching High chats to Salford's Jamie Moore. We hear his Tenerife tales, mad Belfast nights and a few life changing moments on the road to becoming 'Trainer of the Year.

Punching High sits down for a brew with Manchester trainer/manager Joe Gallagher. A recent Ring Magazine Trainer of the Year, Joe speaks of his experiences on the road, the toll on his family and plans for the future. 

Rocky Fielding is the subject of this podcast. We chat about the hurdles he's overcome, life on the road and what motivates him ahead of the biggest challenge of his career. I get the opinions of stablemates Carl Frampton and Steven Ward - along with his trainer Jamie Moore.