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Ringside Toe2Toe Boxing Podcast
Sky Sports
4.1 • 918 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Andy Scott and Barry Jones are joined by this week's special guests Lawrence Okolie and Sky Sports boxing journalist John Dennen.
They discuss Oleksandr Usyk's controversial fight with Rico Verhoeven and debate whether the WBC should be sanctioning the bout for the world heavyweight title.
Okolie looks ahead to his upcoming contest against Tony Yoka and is keen to take on Agit Kabayel so he can he secure a future shot at heavyweight king Usyk.
They finish by previewing Conor Benn's clash with Regis Prograis on the undercard of Tyson Fury's return against Arslanbek Makhmudov.
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| 0:31.7 | The champion is back. |
| 0:35.4 | This is how I let you get made. |
| 0:56.2 | Blast off in the brave new world. Bring on the game team. Day champs like big. this is how I'll let you get made Well hello and welcome to another edition of Well, hello and welcome to another edition of Tows Toadstow, the boxing podcast exclusive to Sky Sports. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm Andy Scott, and alongside me in studio this week is former world champion Barry Jones and |
| 1:02.1 | Sky Sports boxing journalist John Denon. |
| 1:04.9 | How are you both? |
| 1:06.6 | I'm good. |
| 1:07.3 | John? |
| 1:07.7 | I'm outstanding. |
| 1:08.9 | You look outstanding. |
| 1:09.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.3 | But thank God it is a podcast, you know, so no one can actually see how disheveled and stressed he looks. Well, you're on about your sleeves rolled. They're very trendy. He's got his sleeves rolled up because we need him this week. He's come... I've got a podcast show. Yeah, he's coming for genuine content because we do need a bit of an inside track because |
| 1:28.3 | it has been a weird 10 days for boxing on the whole, I would say. |
| 1:32.9 | It's been pretty wild out there. |
| 1:34.6 | And I'm not saying this is the wildest thing that's happened, but it is right up there. |
| 1:38.2 | We're going to be talking Alexander Usik taking on the king of kickboxing, Riko Verhoeven, |
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