The Chessboxing Podcast

Part 2 of an interview with David Bitton, writer, director and producer of By Rook or Left Hook: The Story of Chessboxing. David talks about one of his favourite films, King of Kong and how he managed to snag the film’s executive producer Ed Cunningham to work on this film. He also talks about his...

Interview with David Bitton, writer, director and producer of By Rook or Left Hook: The Story of Chessboxing. David has been in and around the sport of chess boxing for many year and started recording the film in 2009. In the first part of this 2 part interview we look at how chessboxing has changed...

Matt and Gavin discuss the impressive Helsinki event in October before getting stuck into Matt’s chess boxing carrier and his WCBO world title fight. Matt runs a philanthropic organisation called Brawl for a Cause and parallels are drawn between the successes of this enterprise and how chessboxing could learn from this. Matt is also a...

The podcast welcomes Felix “Intense” Li who has crossed over from the world of Kabaddi for his first ever chessboxing fight in on the 11th of December 2021 in London. He is up against Gearoid “Sex Appeal” Veale and we get an insight into Felix’s strategy on the board. The podcast also catches up with...

The podcast takes a look at the new chessboxing database www.chessboxing.info with the second part of a 2 part interview with Matt “Crazy Arms” Read and database creator Richard “Razor” Frazer. Image by Tom Hudson

The podcast takes a look at the new chessboxing database www.chessboxing.info with the first part of a 2 part interview with Matt “Crazy Arms” Read and database creator Richard “Razor” Frazer. Images by James Bartosik

Analysis of the Nordic Chessboxing event in Helsinki with Matt “Crazy Arms” Read, Peter “Actuator” Crowley and Gavin “Grievous Bodily Farmer” Paterson. Images by Miira Ojanen

Post pandemic podcast – welcome back! The podcast catches up with Tero and Lars from the Finnish Chess Boxing Club ahead of their event next Saturday on the 2nd of October. The mayor of Helsinki Juhana Vartiainen will be commentating on the event. We also run through all the fights and let you know what...

The podcast gets reaction form Gerard “Ripper” Reilly and Shayan “Shah” Zarein Dolab on LCB36: Clash of Kings. Ref: The Telegraph

Part 2 of an interview with Shayan “Shah” Zarein Dolab, The King of Persia.