The Rocky Road
An Irish boxing podcast that fans of all sports will love. No one gets to the top without overcoming adversity, in sport or in life. But as Rocky Balboa said, ‘it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward’. Every week on The Rocky Road, host Kevin Byrne and producer Simon Maguire will bring you the distance on some of the wildest journeys the sport has to offer. Pain, pride, passion and politics, the world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It's about how much you can take, and keep moving forward.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 224
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Ron Katz - Legendary Matchmaker
Today's guest is a New York and Atlantic City Hall of Fame member as a matchmaker. He's spent half a century in the sport and has worked with everyone from Muhammad Ali to Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tys…
00:46:45 |
Wed 09 Apr 2025
Donald McRae - All Punched Out
‘Boxing has a perverse way of turning every significant bout I see into something deeply personal. It is as crooked and as destructive as it is magnificent and transformative. While watching boxers r…
00:59:59 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
Glenn Byrne - Focused on Fighting
Glenn Byrne is an unbeaten professional boxer fighting out of Dublin/Wicklow. The younger brother of Jay Byrne, his manager, promoter and trainer, Glenn's fighting for his first title at the National…
00:42:44 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Senan Kelly - Time To Shine
Senan Kelly is from Leixlip, Co Kildare. Currently the Irish welterweight champion, he will defend his title against Dublin's Declan Geraghty at the National Stadium on April 12. It's third time luck…
00:57:42 |
Wed 19 Mar 2025
200th Episode Special: John Duddy - Part 1
The Rocky Road hits its 200th episode during Paddy’s week – so who better to have on than the King of New York himself, Ireland’s John Duddy. He had a famous fan in Jake LaMotta and later worked clos…
00:49:03 |
Wed 12 Mar 2025
Bedlam in Belfast - Crocker vs Donovan
Kevin Byrne is joined by Irish Boxing's Joe O'Neill to reflect on a wild night in Belfast after Paddy Donovan was disqualified in controversial circumstances in his bout with Lewis Crocker. We also h…
01:02:17 |
Mon 03 Mar 2025
Bivol Brilliance, Benn Boils - with Wally Downes Jr
Joining us today is The Sun’s short boxing writer who loves a tall fistic tale, whether it’s roasting hot in York Hall or self-loathing in Las Vegas – but never rowdy in Saudi. It’s Wally Downes Jr, …
01:11:17 |
Thu 27 Feb 2025
Michael Conlan - The Last Dance
It’s always a pleasure to talk boxing with today’s guest, Mick Conlan - and the response we get everytime we have him on, shows that listeners relish these appearances as well. There’s so much to tal…
00:50:23 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
Robbie Murray - The Future of Boxing
Robbie Murray is a former undefeated professional boxer who defied the odds to achieve success in the ring. As a boy, he battled severe asthma and depended on the use of daily oxygen masks, and at th…
01:08:38 |
Fri 14 Feb 2025
Stephen Ormond - A New Era Begins
Stephen Ormond, known as The Rock during his fighting career, knows all about The Rocky Road in boxing. A teenage elite champion who comes from a boxing dynasty, he’s related to the legendary Spike M…
00:30:25 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
Lewis Crocker v Paddy Donovan - Team Crocker
The hugely anticipated Irish domestic clash between Lewis Crocker and Paddy Donovan is only weeks away and we've caught up with both camps ahead of the epic clash in Belfast in March. On this episode…
00:33:10 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
Lewis Crocker v Paddy Donovan - Team Donovan
The hugely anticipated Irish domestic fight between Lewis Crocker and Paddy Donovan is only weeks away and we've caught up with both camps ahead of the epic clash in Belfast in March. First up, we ch…
00:34:24 |
Thu 16 Jan 2025
2024 Irish Boxing Year in Review
Happy Christmas from all of us at The Rocky Road! It's been a big year for the podcast and to round out the campaign, here's our 2024 Year in Review show. Tommy Hyde and Terry O'Neill are back in har…
01:14:26 |
Sat 28 Dec 2024
Oleksandr Usyk - The Greatest of his Time
What more can be said about the genius of Oleksandr Usyk? The Ukrainian got the better of Tyson Fury in their heavyweight championship rematch in Riyadh on Saturday night - this time by unanimous dec…
00:29:15 |
Mon 23 Dec 2024
Jay Byrne - Making Fights
Jay Byrne is a former Irish boxer and current manager, trainer and promoter. Having just put on his seventh show in just over 12 months in Dublin, he's currently the most prolific fight fixer in the …
01:25:51 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
Podge and Rod
"Look, his mother was all over the shop, I had to ring Paschal, Spike, Craig O’Brien, right, and Big Niall Kennedy, ‘Do us a favour lads, will you explain to his mother, he’s not going to be in an in…
00:59:52 |
Tue 26 Nov 2024
Katie Taylor - Bray Bomber Wins Again
‘This how she fight – head down, balls to the wall!’ Roy Jones Jr is on The Rocky Road this week as we reflect on the epic second fight between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano fight in Texas. Taylor …
00:31:06 |
Mon 18 Nov 2024
Kieran Farrell - The Story So Far
Welcome to Part 2 of our interview with Kieran Farrell. In Part 1 we spoke about his part in Daniel Dubois’ stunning destruction of Anthony Joshua at Wembley Stadium, how he came to work with the hea…
00:40:33 |
Wed 13 Nov 2024
Katie Taylor v Amanda Serrano 2 Preview
Katie Taylor v Amanda Serrano – the rematch is here. We’re joined today by Gavan Casey from The 42, who’s chronicled so much of Taylor’s career to date with consistency and insight. In April 2022 the…
01:02:32 |
Tue 05 Nov 2024
Jimmy Halpin - Always Working the Pads
“Jimmy is a great coach, loved him when he travelled to international training camps with Ireland, great pad man.” When you’re getting praise like this from the notoriously hard-to-please Paddy Barne…
01:06:37 |
Wed 30 Oct 2024
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