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15: #15 - Donald McRae

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4.6987 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Donald McRae, the only two-time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year & current Sports Feature Writer of the Year, joins Jake & Spencer to discuss his multi award winning book Dark Trade: Lost in Boxing as well as his thoughts on the current Boxing revolution. Donald is a three-time Sports Interviewer of the Year… so the pressure is on the guys this week! This episode provides one of the most exciting insights we have had to date.
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0:00.0

I'm Hello, welcome to pound for pound, the new weekly boxing podcast with me

0:27.1

Jake Wood and him. Mr Spencer Oliver. How are you? Really good, mate. I think they say the same answer every week. I mean I ask the same question

0:35.0

of it. Yeah, I mean let's start it off. Let's get this out of the way now because I know that last week

0:42.3

I tell you what happened last

0:45.6

week I said that Louis Ritzen was boxing Josh Kelly I thought that I'd

0:50.1

had any he had he had he had he said that Josh Kelly obviously a well-awaited Lewis Rittinson

0:54.0

he's the British Lightweight.

0:55.0

Hang on a minute, slow down a minute.

0:57.0

Obviously.

0:58.0

Well, I wanted to skim over it.

0:59.0

I didn't want to go too much into it.

1:02.0

So, yeah, so... I don't think we go too much into it. So, yeah, so...

1:04.0

I don't think we could forget it because we got hammered on Twitter.

1:07.0

Yeah, we did.

1:08.0

But listen, what we said on Twitter is,

1:10.0

fuck off to toe to toe, isn't it if you want to pass them...

1:12.0

Yeah, basically.

1:14.0

What we were saying was, so I was indoors watching the fight.

1:18.0

Not we, don't start with saying what we were saying.

1:21.0

What I was saying, I was indoors watching the fight and I was writing all the notes down and getting it all done, which we've never really done before.

1:27.0

I want to read this, I want to read this, we've never really done that before, have we? So we just normally turn up, we've watched the boxing, and we just have a chat, like a couple of guys in a pub.

1:34.4

Yeah of course. Well I thought I'd be clever this time and write it all down and so

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