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Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

From Mike Tyson & Lennox Lewis to Michael Franzese: Big Joe Egan | True Crime Podcast 315

Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

Shaun Attwood Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2022

⏱️ 203 minutes

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Big Joe Egan's book on Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09VF42BCR
Big Joe Egan's book worldwide link: https://books2read.com/u/md62QZ

By the age of 24, Big Joe Egan had over 80 boxing wins, 7 Irish titles and was a Golden Gloves champion. A mean body puncher with a durable chin, he went the distance with Lennox Lewis and beat future WBA champion Bruce Seldon.
Encouraged by Floyd Patterson to try his luck in the USA, Joe joined ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson’s training camp in the Catskill mountains with the great Cus D’Amato. Joe became like a brother to Mike, and, in this book, he gives a rare insight of the early Tyson, who after sparring with Joe described him as the Toughest White Man on the Planet.
In the UK, opening a pub pitted Joe against protection racketeers. Armed with guns, axes and machetes, the organised-crime gang attacked Joe’s pub. During a battle worthy of Braveheart, Joe and his friends stood their ground, and Joe was shot. Tragically, Joe was charged with attempted murder.

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I started the boxing originally because I was getting bullied, I got bullied as a child,

0:35.1

but I've had to deal with bullies all my life, and the boxing gave me the strength and the

0:40.3

courage to stand up to the bullies, and that's why I started boxing really, my dad encouraged

0:45.0

it, and when the bullies hit me as a child, when they'd finish beating on me, rather than

0:50.8

hitting my brothers and sisters, those that jump back in and say, don't hit them, continue

0:55.2

to hit me.

1:01.5

When you're walking to the ring, you're scared, you know, you get into the ring, you face

1:05.8

your opponent, you touch gloves, you're scared.

1:09.5

When the bell rings, the fear goes, but there's two spellings of the word fear.

1:14.6

The coward spells it, forget everything and run.

1:18.5

The fighter spells it, face everything and rise.

1:20.8

You're not up in a fighter room, my life may be not a good fighter, but up in a fighter

1:25.7

and for the ones that tried to bully me, I made life difficult for them.

1:29.5

And for the ones that battled me in the boxing ring, I gave a good account to myself.

1:33.3

I fought for the best of my ability, I wasn't good enough, maybe to beat them, but they

1:37.5

knew that I tried my hardest, you know, and I've always been a fighter.

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