Today's episode is about a German boxer Christina Hammer, who is known for her patient and systematic boxing style, wearing her opponents down with jabs and increasingly aggressive follow-up rights, in addition to this, she is a multiple-time world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBO female middleweight title from 2010 to 2019, becoming the youngest boxer in history to win a WBO title. Previously she held the WBC female middleweight title between 2016 and 2018, and the WBO female super-middleweight title in 2013. She also challenged once for the WBO female light-middleweight title in 2014 and once for the undisputed female middleweight championship against Claressa Shields in 2019. In February 2021, she returned to the amateur ranks with the intention of competing at the Tokyo Olympics. Furthermore Hammer's victory against Zita Zatyko earned her Fighter of the Year Award by the WBF and WBO; she was awarded BDB's Female Boxer of the Year; and the WBO awarded her with the WBO Diamond Ring for exceptional performance.

Today's episode is about Jermain Taylor an American former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2014. He remains the most recent undisputed middleweight champion, having won the WBA (Undisputed), WBC, IBF, WBO, Ring magazine, and lineal titles in 2005 by beating Bernard Hopkins, and in doing so ending Hopkins' twelve-year reign as middleweight champion. This made Taylor the first, and to date, only male boxer in history to claim each title from all four major boxing sanctioning organizations in a single fight. He once again defeated Hopkins six months later, making him the only fighter to have defeated Hopkins twice. He would also later hold the IBF middleweight title for a second time.

Today's episode is about a British former professional boxer who competed from 2007 to March 2020. He held the WBA super-bantamweight title from 2013 to 2016, and the British super-bantamweight title from 2011 to 2012. Quigg was known for his relentless work ethic as he grinded for everything he achieved in boxing, constantly working on himself to improve as a fighter, for example When Quigg moved to the Wildcard gym in LA to train under HOF trainer Freddie Roach he said that Quigg 'works harder than Pacquiao', stating, "His work ethic is great and we've seen a lot of really good changes already in the gym.

Today's episode is about Ray Mancini, who competed professionally from 1979 to 1992 and who has since worked as an actor and sports commentator. He held the WBA lightweight title from 1982 to 1984. Ray was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. On November 13, 1982, a 21-year-old Mancini met 27-year-old South Korean challenger Duk Koo Kim. Kim had struggled to make the 135 lb weight limit, and had to lose several pounds shortly before the fight. The title bout, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, was televised live on CBS Sports. It was, according to many observers, a fight filled with action. Mancini won by TKO in the 14th round. Moments after the fight ended, Kim collapsed and fell into a coma, having suffered a subdural hematoma, and died four days later. This fight changed lives and boxing forever, The aftermath had catastrophic repercussions and not just for Mancini, who was still only twenty-one at the time. A few months after Kim died, the South Korean’s mother killed herself and, shortly after, the same fate befell Richard Greene, the man who had refereed the fight. A glaring media spotlight only added to the emotional turmoil. In addition to this boxing changed forever as Kim's death lead to the WBC to take steps to shorten its title bouts to a maximum of 12 rounds. The WBA and WBO followed in 1988, and the IBF in 1989.

Emile was a professional boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands who became a World Champion in the welterweight, junior middleweight and middleweight classes. His best known contest was a 1962 title match with Benny Paret. At the weigh in, Paret infuriated Griffith, a bisexual man, by touching his buttocks and making a homophobic slur. Griffith won the bout by knockout; Paret never recovered consciousness and died in the hospital 10 days later.

In 1963 and 1964, Griffith was voted Fighter of the Year by The Ring magazine and the Boxing Writers Association of America. In 2002, he was listed #33 on Ring Magazine's list of 80 greatest fighters of the past 80 years. Griffith currently ranks #127 in BoxRec's ranking of the greatest pound for pound boxers of all time.

Today's Episode is about Nel Tarleton an English featherweight boxer from Liverpool, England. He was British featherweight champion on three separate occasions and was one of only seven fighters to win two or more Lonsdale Belts outright.

In addition to this, Over the course of his 19-year career, he won the featherweight titles of Britain, and was one of the very best featherweights of the 1930’s.

The Liverpool native stepped into the ring with Hall of Famers Panama Al Brown (fighting him to a draw) and Freddie Miller twice. Additionally, he fought 148 times, won 119 times, had 21 losses and 8 draws and was never stopped, just emphasising how durable and good he really was, whilst only having one functioning lung. Tarleton contracted tuberculosis when he was two-years-old and never weighed more than 140 pounds in his life. He was weak and often roughed up as a child, until a bully, of all people, invited him down to the Everton Red Triangle Boxing club.

That's where he immediately fell in love with the sport of boxing.

Today Episode is about Anthony 'Million Dolla' Crolla, who is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2019. He held the WBA lightweight title from 2015 to 2016, and challenged once for the unified WBA and WBO lightweight titles in 2019. At regional level, he held the British lightweight title from 2011 to 2012. The life story of Crolla is about hard work and determination, Crolla went from being upset in his 9th bout to a journeyman, but came back and beat him. He then lost to Gary Sykes in 2009 and came back from that to win the British lightweight title in 2011. He lost that title to Derry Matthews in 2012, and then lost to Sykes again in the Prizefighter tournament, also in 2012. He drew with Mathews in a 2013 rematch.

In short, Crolla was really not supposed to reach the big stages. But he did. And he reached his biggest stages after major injuries suffered outside the ring, as he was left with a fractured skull and broken ankle when confronting burglars in Dec. 2014. He always just kept fighting and never gave up instead pushed on and went on to fight the biggest names in the lightweight division in Jorge Linares and Lomachenko but also beat former world champs in Ricky Burns and Gavin Rees. Crolla really lived his dream, he went from fighting on undercards to headlining his own venues and selling out crowds in the Manchester Arena, time and time again becoming a much supported fighter who fans, specially the mancunians growed to love, chanting his name everytime he made a ring walk and lighting up the atmosphere in the arenas everytime he fought.

He really became a Manchester sporting legend, specially on the night when he silenced the doubters and critics and completed his lifelong dream of becoming a world champion.

Today's episode is about an Italian–Canadian professional boxer who competed from 1991 to 2007.

He was a World champion in two weight classes, Gatti held the IBF junior lightweight title from 1995 to 1998, and the WBC super lightweight title from 2004 to 2005. He also participated in The Ring magazine's Fight of the Year a total of four times (1997, 1998, 2002, and 2003). Gatti was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame on December 10, 2012 in his first year of eligibility, becoming the tenth Canadian boxer to be so inducted. Gatti was famously known for his trilogy fights with Micky Ward, specially the 1st and the 3rd fight which got put part of HBO's 10 best fights of the decade also I highly recommend you to go and watch them fights as they are really the definition of warriors going at it. Furthermore, Gatti Death came as shock to many as he was only 37 years old and it came with a lot of mystery and confusion with his wife first being arrested for homicide and then released after an autopsy done in Brazil ruled his death was suicide, however there was a lot of claims by friends, family that Gatti would never commit suicide and that the wife of Gatti was guilty of murder as her motive was Gatti's fortune, which Rodrigues inherited since she was able to coerce Gatti to void their prenup agreement three weeks prior to his death.

#Boxing🥊Today's episode is about a Legend, Boxing Hall of Famer Joe Calzaghe, who was a Welsh former Professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2008. He held world championships in two weight Classes , including the unified WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO, Ring magazine and lineal super-middleweight titles, and the Ring light-heavyweight title. Calzaghe is the longest-reigning super-middleweight world champion in boxing history, having held the WBO title for over 10 years and defending the title against 20 boxers (a record in the division, shared with Sven Ottke) before moving up to light-heavyweight. As his super-middleweight and light-heavyweight reigns overlapped, he retired with the longest continual time as world champion of any active boxer at the time. Calzaghe was also the first boxer to unify three of the four major world titles (WBA, WBC, and WBO) at super-middleweight, and was the first Ring champion in that weight class.

Between 2006 and 2008, Calzaghe was ranked by The Ring as one of the world's top ten active boxers P4P reaching a peak ranking of third in January 2009. He retired in February 2009 with an undefeated record, and as a reigning world champion. As of 2020, BoxRec ranks Calzaghe as the seventh greatest fighter of all time, pound for pound, as well as the greatest European boxer of all time.

Today Episode is about a former World Champion boxer, who fought from Welterweight all the way to Heavyweight and an Early Hollywood actor. He was controversial in and out of the ring. And frankly, I think he liked being like that.

From his invention of the “corkscrew punch” (a punch that added a twist to the moment of impact which made for an excellent way to slice and open up opponents’ faces)to his 10 marriages to eight different woman, conviction of manslaughter and eventual suicide. McCoy was always known as someone who loved to play tricks inside the ring, for example, he lulled the reigning welterweight champion Tommy Ryan into a false sense of security before their fight by rubbing flour on his face and pretending to be ill. McCoy was also alleged to have invented the ruse of informing his opponent that his shoe was untied to enable McCoy to strike a blow when the unwary adversary would look down at his feet.

He also would sometimes stop in the middle of a fight to convince his opponent to check out the pretty lady in the front row and when this worked, the distracted opposition was met with a McCoy right-hand. Furthermore, He appeared in films, including a scene fighting Wallace Reid in the 1922 film, The World's Champion. McCoy was also friends with many movie stars of the day, including Charles Chaplin and director D.W. Griffith, who directed the 1919 silent film, Broken Blossoms, Selby's second film as actor.