The Chessboxing Podcast

SUBSCRIBE | NEXT LIVE STREAM 10TH DECEMBER: www.youtube.com/chessboxing Olympic gold medalist Birk Ruud will be taking on TV personality Nicolay Ramm this Christmas as part of the NRK TV production Wonderful Worlds of Sports. We catch up with Birk on his training camp in Austria on Stubaier Gletscher preparing for the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup the...

SUBSCRIBE | NEXT LIVE STREAM 10TH DECEMBER: www.youtube.com/chessboxing TV personality Nicolay Ramm is taking on an olympic gold medalist and professional sportsman, find out how he is approaching the bout. Nicolay is a TV personality, presenter, comedian and journalist. Making a show called the Wonderful Worlds of Sports. Nicolay travels all over the world competing...

SUBSCRIBE | NEXT LIVE STREAM 10TH DECEMBER: www.youtube.com/chessboxing In part 2 of the Lawrence Trent interview we learn about Mogul Chessboxing, Magnus Carlson commentating on the show and an emotional exchange about Lawrence’s friend Iepe Rubingh. If feels like Mogul Chessboxing is going to launch the sport to a new level of popularity and Lawrence...

SUBSCRIBE | NEXT LIVE STREAM 10TH DECEMBER: www.youtube.com/chessboxing Mogul Chess Boxing headliner Lawrence Trent on the technique of opponent GM Aman Hambleton – or lack of! Not only has Lawrence been training but also trying to make weight and has lost 10kg – not bad for an old man. Strength and conditioning using youtube using...

SUBSCRIBE | NEXT LIVE STREAM 10TH DECEMBER: www.youtube.com/chessboxing Tommi has been working hard and supplementing his chessboxing classes with the Finnish Chessboxing Club (FCC) by training in his local boxing gym. Tommi has had experience in performance but nothing like chessboxing and he isn’t planning to upstage his opponent Toto who is know for his...

SUBSCRIBE | NEXT LIVE STREAM 10TH DECEMBER: www.youtube.com/chessboxing This week we have the WCBA European Middleweight champion Shayan “Shah” Zarein Dolab and Felix “Intense” Li. Shayan and Felix spared in the training session earlier in the day and Shayan put Felix through his paces ahead of his bout with Francesco Silvestrin⁠. The sparring was a...

Crowd favourites Rasel “Dazzle” Alam is in the studio this week along with he opponent Andrew “Komodo Dragon” Haworth and James “Spice Boy” Corrigan. Andrew both enjoyed beating Rasel as well as Rasel’s exceptional fighter intro, special thanks to Kate Gilbert. No one was aware that his James Bond entrance was also going to include...

This podcast deals with the controversy of why Richard Frazer’s chessboxing bout was stopped so early. Volfango talks about the International Chessboxing event held in Vigevano, Italy. How did Danielle “Dada” Rota get on in the second bout and why did Richard “Razor” Frazer’s fight end so quickly? Danielle managed to lose two belts in...

This week we meet the Godfather of Italian chess boxing, Volfango Rizzi. Volfango’s lives near Milan in Italy but he has also lived in England and Wales teaching as well as attending university. Volfango hosted an event in Vigevano including our own Richard “The Razor” Fraser. He has been involved in the sport in 2012...

To celebrate our 100th podcast episode we’re looking back at chessboxing history with a little quiz between the two Egghead victors Tim Woolgar and Matt Read. If you’d like to play along at home here are the questions: Chessboxing first appeared in Enki Bilal’s comic book Froid Equateur. Froid Equateur was part of which trilogy...