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Boxing Life Stories

Season 4: #43 Mike Goodall

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Mike owns Ringcraft and has been ringside, literally, for more than 30 years. He assembles the rings for the big nights, in the small halls and for training camps around the world. He also owns a sign business, so provides the sets and back drops for public workouts, press conferences and weigh ins. He and his team are often the first people on the scene of fight week and the last ones to leave. He's also worked with Joshua, Bruno, Lennox, Benn, Eubank and anymore and has worked with every major UK promoter, including Frank Warren, Mickey Duff, Barry and Eddie Hearn, Kellie Maloney and Boxxer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Everything that we do, we're the first ones there and we're the last ones to live.

0:06.3

We set the training camp up and I was there and he came in the first day to train and

0:12.6

I was there and I was ringside and he came up to me and he said you built this and I

0:17.7

said yeah he said absolutely fabulous man great he said wonderful and he was so nice

0:22.7

and what have you and then you see the other savage side of him and you can't believe

0:26.5

it's the same look. I remember going up in New Yorkshire to various parks and what

0:33.1

have you and we used to put a ring up for and Naz and Johnny Nelson used to get in a ring

0:40.4

and I used to invite someone in the front of public and they were allowed to hit the

0:44.2

member of the public all I did was dodge out the way he used to say to him I said you're

0:49.4

trying it my boxer. Hello and welcome to box in life stories with me,

0:54.3

Christy. What happened in the ring after tasting only good with his child's play compared

0:59.1

to that? They still had goosebumps this day. You couldn't take the tears from his eyes

1:05.9

or the smile this face could you? I know. He's been beating me. He said well it's four years back

1:11.2

and the baby didn't make me look like alcohol porn. He's going to beat you all night.

1:15.2

He's winning and he's nothing else. Hello and welcome back to box in life stories. This

1:22.0

week I'm joined by the wonderful Mike Goodall. Mike has been, I think Mike has probably seen more

1:28.1

fights in the UK and maybe even around the world than any other fight figure. Mike builds the rings

1:35.3

for ring craft. He builds the sets that you see on the TV for Sky, for BT Sport and he's done

1:42.1

them over the years from Mickey Duff for Frank Warren, Barry and Eddie Hurn, Frank,

1:46.7

Nick Kelly Maloney and just about everybody in between. He's just part of the fabric of British

1:54.2

boxing. He's a hugely decorated worker in the boxing space. He's been around. He's been

2:02.4

absolutely everywhere and been involved doing everything from MCN to being a whip,

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