Showtime Boxing

It's award time on the podcast, as Eric and Kieran hand out their awards for Fight, Fighter, KO, and Upset of the interrupted half year of boxing - and create a special award for Fighter of the Quarantine. Plus, news, fight recaps, and a review of episode 1 of the new Showtime documentary series Outcry.

Veteran boxing scribe Dan Rafael joins the podcast to share Roberto Duran memories, calculate Jarrell Miller's total number of failed drug tests, discuss British heavyweights, review the ESPN/Top Rank fights from the MGM Grand "bubble", and more. And Eric listens patiently while Kieran celebrates Liverpool's Premier League title.

Former super-middleweight champ Carl Froch joins the podcast to reminisce about the Super Six tournament, his career and his reasons for retiring when he did, and to share his thoughts on boxing without crowds. And Eric and Kieran get to review actual, real fights again!

On this week's podcast, we discuss the Showtime documentary "Ringside" and talk to its two young stars, boxing prospects Kenneth Sims Jr., and Destyne Butler, Jr. Showtime boxing analyst Steve Farhood joins us. And Eric gives a moving tribute to his late father, Ray Raskin, to whom this episode is dedicated.

Brian Custer joins the show to discuss his new podcast, the future of boxing, standing between Wilder and Breazeale, and the challenges of raising three young men in 2020. And Eric and Kieran look back on Anthony Joshua's battle in 2017 with Wladimir Klitschko and Mike Tyson's battle last week with his own shirt. 

What does Leo Santa Cruz have in common with Floyd Mayweather, Lennox Lewis, and Joe Louis? They all have an excellent record in rematches. In advance of Showtime replaying Santa Cruz's two rematch wins against Carl Frampton and Abner Mares, Eric and Kieran talk to him about his career, and look back at those boxers throughout history who have done better against opponents the second - or third, or fourth - time.

The British are coming! Gareth A. Davies of The Telegraph in London joins Erik and Kieran to share stories of covering Ricky Hatton and Joe Calzaghe, and to predict the next stars of British boxing.

Kieran and Eric are joined by veteran boxing writer and Mayweather chronicler David Mayo as they look back on the career of Floyd Mayweather and his fights with Conor McGregor and Marcos Maidana. Also, they mourn the death of Jimmy Glenn and debate whether judges should score fights from their couch when the sport returns.

Eric and Kieran remember Mayweather-Pacquiao, consider the career of Keith Thurman, and talk with heavyweight contender Joseph Parker about the heavyweight division, life in lockdown, and the videos that have made him many fans' new favorite boxer. 

Errol Spence Jr's trainer Derrick James joins the podcast this week to 

talk about Spence's recent fighting past and possible options for his 

future; and Eric and Kieran discuss movies and the accuracy of a 

dramatization of the life of Carlos Monzon.