Big Joe Egan's Life Story! Mike Tyson’s Sparring Partner Calls out JOHN FURY on Misfits | True Crime Podcast 861
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🗓️ 18 February 2024
⏱️ 125 minutes
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By the age of 24, Big Joe Egan had over 80 boxing wins, 7 Irish titles and was a Golden Gloves champion. A mean body puncher with a durable chin, he went the distance with Lennox Lewis and beat future WBA champion Bruce Seldon.
Encouraged by Floyd Patterson to try his luck in the USA, Joe joined ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson’s training camp in the Catskill mountains with the great Cus D’Amato. Joe became like a brother to Mike, and, in this book, he gives a rare insight of the early Tyson, who after sparring with Joe described him as the Toughest White Man on the Planet.
In the UK, opening a pub pitted Joe against protection racketeers. Armed with guns, axes and machetes, the organised-crime gang attacked Joe’s pub. During a battle worthy of Braveheart, Joe and his friends stood their ground, and Joe was shot. Tragically, Joe was charged with attempted murder.
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This particular gang attacked my pub, 37 of them, armed with a handgun. |
| 0:23.0 | 37 of them, armed with a handgun of shock on hatchets and machetes. |
| 0:29.0 | I was sitting in the ward in the hospital and two family members of the gang that had attacked me, they weren't in the attack, |
| 0:36.4 | walked past me in the hospital ward and put that fingers to my forehead as it was shooting me in the head. |
| 0:44.0 | So I've stood up, I've knocked both of them out, badly wounded, this is fact, I'm not making |
| 0:48.1 | this up. Yeah. I've picked up a stool to sail into people they're in that hospital. |
| 0:54.7 | I didn't know who I was surrounded by because the people that had attacked me |
| 0:58.1 | were Balaclavas and masks. And when we went into the hotel Mike Tyson said, |
| 1:02.8 | Joe, any more trouble at your pub and I'm landing. |
| 1:05.6 | He's people that work me on the... |
| 1:09.2 | Wow. |
| 1:10.2 | Well, Mike knows about this. |
| 1:11.6 | I said, because he does. He's my boyhood friend. |
| 1:16.0 | They said there's a young heavyweight in the cat skills called Mike Tyson, looking for |
| 1:19.2 | sparing partners, 17 years of age. Same age, they but actually six months younger than me. |
| 1:24.0 | I was so happy to hear this because I've been fighting men |
| 1:28.0 | because I was big for my age, but I haven't got that man strength. |
| 1:31.0 | I was under doors when I was 15,. You know I felt in my mind I was a big man I was a mature man I wasn't I was still a teenage boy but I was fighting men but when I heard my Tyson was similar to me as I turned out six much younger |
| 1:44.7 | to me I'd never knew who Mike Tyson was he was knocking out men there for an |
| 1:48.4 | center I didn't know this so when I got to the catkills I met Cusk, |
| 1:52.8 | Reston and Marnie and Camille and Tom Patsy and Jbright |
| 1:56.5 | and a few other people that were there. |
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