We’re joined by a man who was once a five-time Irish amateur champion, a World Series of Boxing star, and a professional middleweight known for his rugged, relentless style: it’s Tyrone’s Conrad Cummings. I first interviewed Conrad back in April 2013, where he told me incredible stories about fighting for Mexico in the WSB - I remember dubbing him The Irish Mexican, not the first and not the last of his kind - and shared his dreams of becoming a full-time pro. He went on to achieve that dream, amassing a solid record of 17 wins, 4 losses, and 1 draw, before retiring in 2021 on medical grounds. We're starting this conversation with the question he recently posed to himself and the boxing world: When the fighting is over... what exactly is next? Conrad talks about beginning boxing as ‘a chubby nine-year-old’, early amateur rivalries, his different mentors over the years, how being seen as a puncher got in his head, the pride he takes in his career, why skills pay the bills in his approach as a trainer, and a meeting with a former Irish champion who survived a plane crash…
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