During the course of recording podcasts, there are many moments in which things can go wrong, whether it be a mispronunciation of a word or just generally misinterpreting and getting it wrong. This episode provides you with moments from season three where this happened, and we reflect upon those moments in a generally light-hearted episode to round up the season.

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The season is at an end and in this episode, we reflect on the stories, characters, and our own experiences of producing the show. Also, we present our 'loosely' made-up awards for the season featuring "The Narco King", "Leon Spinks Driving School" and "The Tales Of Mr. Magee" plus many more moments to remember.

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Following the season three finale, Trisha Morrison joins us on the show to discuss Tommy's story and more importantly present further evidence to confirm that Tommy was in fact never officially diagnosed or had HIV/AIDS. We hear many different stories from the courtroom and about life with Tommy before his untimely demise!

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In this episode, we dig deep with a man who went from being the heavyweight champion of the world, and star of a Rocky movie... to drinking, driving, drugging, beating, biting, toting guns, and so much more. Then there are the various opinions, facts, and lies on the HIV diagnosis that has been contested he never had! This story documents the rise and fall of Tommy "The Duke" Morrison.

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Following the Chuck Wepner story, we discuss how much the story of an underdog in boxing is appreciated by fans worldwide, making comparisons to modern-day fighters and how they may not reach the championship gold but leave such an impact on the sport that the fans never forget!

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In this episode, we check out the life of the man who inspired Sylvester Stallone to write the Rocky character. He came from the streets and loved a bar-room brawl even more than a fight in the ring.

In boxing, he was known mainly for two things, being the bloodiest fighter, maybe in boxing history, and getting a shot, out of nowhere, to fight Muhammad Ali, for the heavyweight championship of the world!

Life after boxing consisted of life selling liquor, legally, and for a little while, selling cocaine, illegally. A federal investigation brought an end to that, but years later, he's in trouble once more, this time for being involved with memorabilia forgery!

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Following the main episode on John Morrissey, we discuss the gang culture of the mid-1800s in New York and how even in today's society some things have just not changed.

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An Irish immigrant, a collection agent for crime bosses, a professional boxer, and a prolific gambler, John Morrissey was—if nothing else—an unlikely candidate to become one of the most important figures in the history of American history.

John Morrissey, was a two-fisted Irish immigrant who, more than any other man of the age, represented the nefarious links between organized crime, politics, sports, and high finance in America. The loose inspiration behind Leonardo DiCaprio's character in The Gangs of New York, he was an undefeated bare-knuckle prize-fighter, widely recognized as the national champion, as well as a feared gangster and mob boss before either term was coined, rumored leader of the Dead Rabbits street gang, and eventually U.S. Congressman and member of the New York state senate.

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In this episode, we discuss the story of Roberto Medina and how this links to boxing attracting strange and dangerous individuals into the sport. We also discuss what constitutes a bad individual and can then change or can boxing change them.

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In this episode, we take a look at a man who came onto the boxing scene, literally out of nowhere. To the world, he seemingly had no past, but he certainly had a future in fighting. He made it all the way to the national stage before questions arose. Questions like "who is this guy?" because facing a well-known fighter of the time caused his big secret to be exposed, and his world to crumble. Just when you maybe start to feel bad for him, you find out something even more sinister took place which leads to the question of who is Roberto Medina?

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