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#328. Boxings World Famous Ring Announcer - Big Mo

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4.8953 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Kody “Big Mo” Mommaerts tells the story most fight fans have never heard. Before the bright lights, he was a kid battling insecurity, pressure, and the fear of never being good enough. He opens up about the moment his life flipped, the grind that nearly broke him, and the fight world politics he had to survive to become one of the most recognisable voices in combat sports. Kody also reveals the brutal criticism he faced online, the nights where he questioned everything, and the turning point that turned him from an outsider into the man announcing some of the biggest fights on the planet.


This is the eventful life of Mr Kody Mommaerts


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0:00.0

Jake is a really, really impressive guy.

0:02.0

And I've been saying this about the Paul brothers for a while.

0:04.0

Look, they're polarizing people.

0:06.0

Are you nervous for Paul versus Tyson?

0:08.0

Not really.

0:09.0

Tell me about how you got the call for the Mike Tyson, Jake Paul fight.

0:13.0

Then we show up for the way-ins and we have no idea how Mike is going to look.

0:17.0

Mike shows up, ripped to shreds for someone his age, slaps Jake in the face. I see

0:22.3

seven, eight security guards, not sure what to do. Usually they'd grab the fighter, they'd

0:27.5

restrain him. So it was interesting watching a bunch of security go, do we put our hands on it?

0:32.6

44 knockouts, 22 in the first round. 65 million households.

0:38.5

Watch that fight.

0:42.1

72,000 people were in that stadium and you've hosted it.

0:44.5

Welcome to the Dodge Woodall show.

0:47.7

I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens, the world's largest sports and music festival.

0:49.2

On this podcast, I speak to proper characters who have all lived eventful lives.

0:53.5

Do us a favor, hit that follow button and be sure to check us out on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok at Dodge Woodall, where we've now had over 100 million views. Cody, welcome to the show, mate. Absolutely. Thanks for having me. Good to be back in Bournemouth. Yeah, mate. I know you've been here a few times, haven't you? First, first boxing, real first full professional boxing show I ever did was in Bormwood.

1:13.8

It was my Bormwood.

1:13.8

It was my debut on Sky when Chris Bill and Smith fought Isaac Chamberlain. That's right. Yeah, a couple of years ago. Yeah. Well, I'm really looking forward to this one. Let's roll all the way back. How did you get into the boxing world? Ooh. Okay, where can I start? It's kind of a lengthy story. So I was a college football player, American football. And towards the end of my career, I started becoming interested in like hosting live events and public speaking. I was a business student, competed in business competitions. So I cut my teeth on presenting and things like that I was

1:45.0

working in business et cetera and towards the end of my career I actually wanted to host a event

1:52.2

at my university that was like an award show for the athletic department so the ESPN has what's

1:58.1

called like the SPs it was that type of thing and I wanted to host it every year I wanted to do a monologue and wear a suit and the whole nine yards. I just was always interested in that type of presentation. But the athletic director didn't really want me to do it. He's like, I'm not going to have a 21 year old host this event. Boosters come to this. Administration comes to this, the president of university comes to this.

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