Could Atang be better than AJ? 🤷 | Itauma vs Whyte preview 👀
Ringside Toe2Toe Boxing Podcast
Sky Sports
4.1 • 918 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
McKenzie reflects on his incredible career, which saw him win world titles at flyweight, bantamweight and super bantamweight as he became a three-weight world champion.
Atang discusses comparisons that have been made with former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and whether he could fight Moses Itauma in the future.
The panel preview Itauma's fight against Dillian Whyte this weekend and question if he could be the one to dethrone undisputed king Oleksandr Usyk.
They also react to the news that Chris Eubank Jr's rematch with Conor Benn has been confirmed and debate who will win this time around.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, champ is back, the champion's back |
| 0:03.0 | This is how a legend get made |
| 0:05.0 | Blast off in the brave new world Bring on the game chain Game champs like big Going all because I got to have much more Hold tight Are you ready for the body of your life Hello and welcome to ringside to toe-to-to-to-boxing podcast exclusive to Sky Sports. |
| 0:27.8 | Now, before you're just your headsets and ask where's Andy Scott? |
| 0:31.2 | He's on a well-earned holiday. |
| 0:32.7 | I think it's Boggner. |
| 0:33.4 | He's just something like, I don't know where it is. |
| 0:35.3 | So today you stuck with me, Johnny Nelson, steering the ship alongside my trusty co-host, Gary Logan. Hello, Gary. How are you doing, bro? Good time to hear, man. Now we're here, this is funny. I'm supposed to be a guest. Now we've got a cracking line up for the show this week. A bit later, we'll be talking to Rising Prospect Neuer Tang. He'll be joining us. |
| 0:55.4 | But first, I'm delighted to say we're joined by a former three-weight world champion, |
| 1:01.2 | one of the finest technicians British boxing ever produced, Duke McKenzie. |
| 1:05.4 | What's up, Duke? |
| 1:06.1 | He got to do you. |
| 1:07.4 | There he is. |
| 1:08.3 | There he is. |
| 1:10.2 | You know what? I actually always thought, I always say, your you. There is. You know what? |
| 1:11.0 | I actually always thought, I always say, |
| 1:13.5 | your achievements are so underrated for a British fighter because there's not. |
| 1:18.8 | How many's done it? |
| 1:20.2 | How many, how many's had a world titles in three different divisions? |
| 1:24.0 | From here, in this country there's Bob Fitzsitt Simmonsimmons, who was originally the original three-rate world champion, and Ricky Burns. He's done it and myself, but Ricky came after me, so obviously, so I'd be the second. I've got an argument, I think, for being the first, because Bob Fitzsimmons, I think he left his country at 86, never boxed over here. |
| 1:45.2 | So, I mean, listen, it is what it is. First, second, doesn't make any difference. I suppose you're in, if you're in our sport, you'll understand how much that puts you in, like, boxing royalty. If you're outside of the sport, the commercial side of it, people actually don't realize how valuable that is. Right. I mean, you know, I'm very blessed. I'm very lucky in that respect. |
| 1:44.5 | I had a great, great manager in Mickey Duff, who steered and guided my career. And, you know, British champion, European champion, world champion. Well, we'll touch on that. We'll touch on that. And Duke was one of the reasons why I went with Mickey Duff. Well, we'll touch on that. Okay, one of the first British boxes to win World Tards at three different weights. |
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