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Young Quicks is a rapper from Oxnard, CA. The first time I remember seeing him was performing for the entrance of boxer "Bam Bam" Brandon Rios before one of his fights. Today, he still performs at various venues and...

Joe Cortez is considered one of the best referees ever. Cortez was born in New York, and is the son of Puerto Rican parents. He had a great amateur boxing career and fought some pro fights. He started as a referee in...

Jsu Garcia, also known as actor Nick Corri, came on TheBoxingBar podcast a few months back. We talked about many of the classic films he was in like the original Nightmare on Elm Street , Gotcha! , Wildcats , Traffic...

It was great chatting it up with Buffalo's "Baby" Joe Mesi recently on TheBoxingBar podcast. The former top heavyweight contender came on to talk about his boxing career. He had a great run as an amateur almost making...

A few months back, I went to a Jo Koy comedy show up here in Redding, CA. His opener was comedian, Joey Guila. Joey had the audience in the palm of his hands with his great delivery. I knew I wanted this guy to come on...

Check out our interview with Ireland's Deirdre Gogarty on TheBoxingBar podcast. Gogarty fell in love with boxing while watching a film with Jack Dempsey. The future boxing trailblazer kept this secret from her family...

It would be hard to find a fighter whose family was more involved with boxing than the Byrd family. His father was the head Olympian coach, his mother was also involved, his brothers, and his sister was three-time world...

Check out my newest posted interview with special guest, Jim Lampley! Before talking to him, I didn't know much about him personally. I always figured that because he had covered so many sports for all those Olympic...

Sam Firstenberg is an Israeli-American film director that was born in Poland and raised in Jerusalem. Firstenberg directed several low-budget films in the 80's and 90's such as the American Ninja movies, Revenge of the...

This past Wednesday evening, trainer Robert Garcia came on for his yearly interview with TheBoxingBar podcast. At that moment, he had just finished breakfast in Saudi Arabia where he is at for this afternoon's big fight...

In the next few weeks, I will be bringing on some interesting people from Ventura County to interview for TheBoxingBar podcast. The first one is historian, author, and well-known local ghost hunter Richard Senate. Mr...

Here is our interview with 1996 boxing Olympian "Dangerous" David Diaz of Chicago, IL. He represented the United States in the Atlanta games on a terrific team which included Floyd Mayweather Jr., Fernando Vargas, and...

Joel "El Platanito" Salas started his professional boxing career on June 25, 2000. Salas fought fifteen professional fights and stopped fighting in 2003. Joel is the son of Jose Salud "El Platano" Salas. Jose was from...