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Boxing Life Stories

Season 5: #7 Thomas McDonagh

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Thomas McDonagh was a frustratingly good prospect from the Collyhurst and Moston gym in Manchester and learned his trade under the brilliant coach Brian Hughes.

McDonagh was a one club man, amateur and pro, and he boxed the likes of Anthony Small, Sam Webb, Wayne Alexander, Bradley Pryce and Andrew Face but he admits he didn't fulfil his potential.

He was also a stablemate to the likes pop Robin Reid, Gary Lockett, Michael Jennings, Anthony Farnell and Michael Gomez and is known to be one of the funniest character in British boxing.

Here, he talks about his career, the good boxing does, his relationships with Brian Hughes and Pat Barrett and life inside one of Manchester's most famous gyms.

Transcript

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I've always been like, Trace, I've always been like, I'm a little bit, I've got a little

0:38.0

bit of, um, even on again, even as an adult now, I can, I can go on the missing and, you

0:44.1

know, just, just go off, go off radar, not like mad, but, um, my wife keeps me in check.

0:52.5

As soon as I way in, I just go, I just go and get an Indian, go and get a chicken

0:56.7

madrasin, chips and all that, honestly, I never had anything like that, never, literally

1:02.3

making weight was running, and it's not eating.

1:06.0

But what Brown would do is, ten times out of ten, we'd be sat up, we'd be in the park

1:10.8

running, or we'd be wherever, and some guy would come over, and he'd go, why are you

1:14.5

brown?

1:15.5

And Brown would go, oh, I love sun, how are you doing?

1:17.5

I'd get like this proper full on conversation, right?

1:20.9

Oh, I was, and Brown would gauge about his muscles, oh, he's the Mrs, oh, sure, right?

1:25.2

Yeah, look after her, look after her, no, I'll laugh, and he'd be like, oh, that with

1:28.4

his wife and his mom and his sons and this and that, I was just, you know, boy, oh, he's

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