Joe Egan - The Toughest
Big Joe Egan joins the podcast this week to tell his story and he’s well and truly travelled The Rocky Road to contentment. Raised in Ringsend, Dublin, he took up boxing after being bullied as a kid and never looked back. His first fight was against future world champ Steve Collins and he went on to become multiple-times Irish heavyweight champ, which brought him into the orbit of Floyd Patterson, Cus D’Amato and a young Mike Tyson. He became Tyson’s sparring partner in the Catskills, surviving savage rounds where others couldn’t and even earning the moniker, ‘The Toughest White Man on the…
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