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Boxing with Mannix and Mora

So You Want to Be A Small Promoter?

Boxing with Mannix and Mora

Boxing with Chris Mannix

News, Sports, Sports News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week Mannix sits down down the Nolan Brothers, Matt and Mark, Boston-based local promoters to discuss what it takes to be a small boxing promoter. The Nolan's talk about what got them into boxing promoting, how they balance it against full time day jobs, lessons they have learned in the last year, why it's not a business to get rich in, how their show at Fenway Park came together and more. Plus how the rise of TKO boxing could impact their business and if changes to the Muhammad Ali Act would affect club show promoting.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

One is a respected writer.

0:02.0

I see we're just throwing the word respect around willy-nilly now, huh?

0:06.0

The other is a former world champion.

0:09.0

This is boxing with Manix and Moron, the fighter.

0:13.0

Just how many times did he get punched in the face exactly?

0:16.0

Versus the writer.

0:17.0

It's a cacophony of great analysis and insight.

0:20.0

It's true. I said cacophony. It wasn't my

0:23.6

best moment. Follow. Rate and review. Five stars all day. And now here's Chris Mannix.

0:33.4

All right, welcome in, boxing with Manix and Mora. No Sergio this episode doing something a little

0:39.7

different this show. Many of you listening to this pod have attended a major fight card, one put on by

0:45.5

Matron, by PBC, by Golden Boy, one in Los Angeles or New York, Dallas, or Las Vegas.

0:52.4

But how many of you out there have attended a club show?

0:56.2

I'm talking about a small boxing show put on by a local promoter that primarily features

1:00.4

local ticket sellers with the occasional prospect or semi big name to round it out.

1:05.4

Club shows are the lifeblood of boxing, where your favorite fighter began his or her career

1:10.4

and where

1:11.1

fighters not good enough to make it onto the national or global stage have a chance to fight

1:15.6

for real money. But putting on club shows is hard. It is not a lucrative business by any means,

1:21.8

and requires real dedication to ensure that the events are professionally done. Today, I'm going

1:26.6

to bring on a pair of club promoters.

1:28.1

Matt and Mark Nolan, but Nolan Brothers, as their company is known in Boston.

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