Beyond Boxing

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  BEYOND BOXING EP315 - CONOR BENN'S FIRST DAY IN BIG SCHOOL 14.09.2026 34min

  Here’s the hard truth: Conor Benn is not Nigel Benn. He never was. He doesn’t have what his father had, and Saturday night proved it in brutal fashion. What we watched wasn’t just a loss. It was what happens when a kid from privilege steps into a sport built by people who either grew up hard, or trained hard enough from childhood to make up for it. You can’t manufacture that. You can manufacture resilience, you cannot manufacture toughness.
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  BEYOND BOXING EP314 - IF I COULD TALK TO MOSES ITAUMA 01.09.2026 42min

  Moses Itauma’s defeat on Saturday raises a question that is impossible to ignore: who is actually responsible for what happened? There are really only two possibilities. Either Ben Davison and his team had the right game plan, understood exactly what was happening in the ring, knew what Moses needed to do, and Moses ignored them. Or they didn’t have the answers. They gambled on Moses knocking out his opponent early and, when that didn’t happen, there was no Plan B. And if either of those scenarios is true, Moses has a serious problem. Because if he ignored the right instructions, then he may be surrounded by people he doesn’t respect enough to listen to. And if the instructions weren’t there, then he may be surrounded by people who simply aren’t capable of taking him to the level he wants to reach. Either way, something has to change. Moses is only 21. He has plenty of time to rebuild, learn and come again. But if he wants to become a world champion, and stay there, he has some brutally difficult decisions ahead of him about the people he trusts with his career. The question isn’t simply “Why did Moses Itauma lose?” The bigger question is: “Is Moses Itauma surrounded by the right people to become a world champion?”
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  BEYOND BOXING EP313 - THE MOSES ITAUMA REBOOT 30.08.2026 46min

  In boxing, nothing beats experience. Nothing beats that feeling of knowing you’ve been there before, knowing you’ve overcome it before, and knowing exactly how to do it again. Moses found that out the hard way. A decade after winning Olympic bronze, Filip Hrgović showed the value of taking the hard road to success. When the pressure came, he remained composed, focused and committed to his objective. Eventually, Moses wilted and fell. Is it time for a change in Moses’ career? Potentially. But that depends on how badly he wants to become great. Because Filip Hrgović is proof of what happens when you don’t just wait for success, you actively chase it.
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  BEYOND BOXING EP312 - A WEEK IN BOXING 16.08.2026 43min

  Will Claressa Shields ever get the test her career deserves? Will she ever get the test that cements her greatness? It seems that she’s so far ahead of everybody else in boxing that she could almost retire, Go and do the Olympics with a third gold medal, come back and be undisputed all over again and if that is the case, what does that say about the quality of women’s Boxing overall?
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  BEYOND BOXING EP311 - ONE FOR THE DIPSH*TS 13.08.2026 55min

  BEYOND BOXING EP311 - ONE FOR THE DIPSH*TS by Highfield Boxing
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  BEYOND BOXING EP310 - PRENGA KNOCKED THE FEMI INTO JOSHUA 27.07.2026 39min

  For over a decade, boxing fans have waited for Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury to finally meet. In heavyweight boxing, 10 years is an eternity. It’s the difference between your prime and your decline. Fast forward to 2026, and last weekend made one thing painfully clear: both men are in rapid decline. Neither looks capable of competing with the elite anymore. At this stage, it feels as though they’re both searching for one final payday before walking away. The biggest irony? I don’t think the Joshua–Fury fight happens at all.
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  BEYOND BOXING EP309 - ERROL SPENCE - TRUTH AND RECONCILLIATION 27.07.2026 26min

  What a career Errol Spence Jr. has had. When history judges him, I think he’ll be remembered as one of the rare elite fighters who took on every challenge. No ducking, no waiting for opponents to age, no protecting an unbeaten record. He fought virtually everyone there was to fight at welterweight, and fought almost all of them in or around their prime.
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  BEYOND BOXING EP308 - WHEN WERE WE WARRIORS? 17.07.2026 42min

  Changing the manager will not fix anything. The England football problems are the same as the British boxing problems. We have a society that are not mentally resilient but what is even worse is that we have very few, if any internal drivers to be great collectively. How do we fix this?
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  BEYOND BOXING EP307 - TYSON FURY ABOUT TO WACH ONE OUT ON THE FANS 01.07.2026 37min

  Boxing loves to shoot itself in the foot. How can we go from Jaron Ennis and Xander Zayas giving us one of the best fights we’ve seen in the last 10 years to having to deal with Tyson Fury fighting Mariusz Wach. With him then offering his fig leaf of charitable donations when he could easily cover the charitable donation on his own, But once again, he just wants to milk the fans for what he can. I guess this is kind of Boxing’s version of the sublime they’re ridiculous
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  BEYOND BOXING EP306 - FURY KNOWS IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN 21.06.2026 51min

  It’s notoriously difficult to get removed from a no-entry or travel prohibition list. In Tyson Fury’s case, how he’s managed to do so remains unclear. Whether additional concessions were required is anyone’s guess. What does seem possible is that he may have had to cooperate with certain interests along the way, and perhaps that’s simply how the world works. If there’s one sport that prepares you for the murky realities of politics, it’s boxing. The sport has always been filled with backroom deals, conflicting agendas, and missed opportunities. The reality is that an Anthony Joshua vs. Tyson Fury fight now seems increasingly unlikely. Not only has the chance to create a truly global event slipped away, but public interest has faded as well. Anthony Joshua doesn’t appear as invested in boxing as he once was, and Fury hardly seems fully committed either. Both men often seem more focused on building their brands than delivering the fight fans have wanted for years. As boxing fans, we’re left with a familiar feeling: watching the biggest fights fail to materialize until they’re well past their prime, only to be asked to pay premium prices for what remains. A contest that could have defined an era now risks becoming just another example of boxing’s talent for squandering its biggest opportunities.
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  BEYOND BOXING EP305 - IS MISFITS MISFIRING 14.06.2026 34min

  They really had John Fury out there running about like Uncle Albert?
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  BEYOND BOXING EP304 - JUSTICE FOR BEN SHALOM 07.06.2026 52min

  You can’t help it feel that watching the Zuffa card was like watching a Boxxer card from 2023. So, if you’re Ben Shalom you must be sat at home raging that the fighters you help build have just been taken from you, and put in exactly the same place you left them, and you received no compensation. No thank you no reward no nothing. That must really hurt.
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  BEYOND BOXING EP303 - ITS NOT VERHOVER YET 24.05.2026 44min

  Last night’s main event had all the ingredients of a defining moment—but instead, it left us debating the referee. As Rico Verhoeven pushed himself against the elite pedigree of Oleksandr Usyk, the fight was hanging in the balance. He was under pressure, no doubt, but still on his feet and within touching distance of the bell. And that’s where the controversy begins. Should the referee have stepped in when he did? Or should Verhoeven have been given the chance to make it back to his stool and reset? In combat sports, referees walk a tightrope between protecting fighters and allowing contests to reach a natural conclusion. Get it wrong, and the story shifts, from the athletes in the ring to the official in charge.
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  BEYOND BOXING EP302 - THE ULTIMATE WARRIORS 10.05.2026 31min

  What are we just seen? Seriously? What have we just seen? We have seen the most dramatic world title fight we’ve seen in the UK for a long time. We saw two men put their bodies and literally their lives on the line, and you wonder if either Man will be the same again. In a perverse way, that is exactly why we love the sport of boxing.
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  BEYOND BOXING EP301 - SAVING PRIVATE RYAN 07.05.2026 43min

  Time to remove more frauds from the game.
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  BEYOND BOXING EP300 - WHAT GP GIVES OUT GHRP 2. 25.04.2026 47min

  Doping is a serious problem in boxing. Whether the sport is dirty, or people are sailing too close to the wind, something has to change. We also need to look at why VADA is catching everyone and UKAD is catching nobody. What of VADA did other sports, what would they find?
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  BEYOND BOXING EP299 - THE 400TH ONE 19.04.2026 2h 18min

  When we hit the milestone episodes, you know I have to go back to the essence - where it all started. So today, i am joined by martin and Andi, the legends that built the New Age Boxing podcast, father to much of what came after. Not sure what we did today, but we had fun writing a few wrongs and poking a few bears. Enjoy.
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  BEYOND BOXING EP298 - WHEN MALIK CAME TO TOWN 04.04.2026 53min

  The fun and games of a boxing weigh-in.
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  BEYOND BOXING EP297 - PUT THE RICE CRISPIES IN THE BOWL 29.03.2026 59min

  Without doubt, Moses Itauma is a special talent and you sense his moment will arrive soon. The hope is that his career lasts a long time and that means he has the pressure of remaining hungry, dedicated and in love with the sport. What a good feeling it is to see big shows, in big arenas, in the UK. You cannot beat that atmoshere.
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  BEYOND BOXING EP296 - FROM UNCASTRATED BOAR TO FAKE BEEF 19.03.2026 42min

  Geopolitics have really accelerated the boxing recession. Everyone is fighting for the last few dollars left on the table, but the fans aren't buying into all of it this time.