An open conversation about combat sports safety and clean sport
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Lou DiBella's professional involvement with boxing began when he was appointed Vice President of Programming at HBO Sports in 1989. Over the course of a little over a decade, he and HBO Sports President built HBO into the undisputed champion of boxing broadcasting. In 2000, he left to become an adviser to boxers and then a prinoter, as hewd of DiBella Entertainment. But DiBella, who was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2020, has had enough of the sport. In this typically forthright conversation, DiBella talks about fighter health, steroid abuse, and more, and why he is now focusing on his other life as owner of minor league baseball's Richmond Flying Squirrels.
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14 Sept 2026
Episode 28: Ishe Smith
In what is probably the most personal and revealing interview we've done, Ishe Smith, former IBF junior middleweight titlist and the first native-born Las Vegan to win a world title, opens up on his career, on being underpaid and becoming bankrupt, of being on “The Contender,” on bouncing back to become world champion and then having to cope with the murder of his ex-wife and the mother of his children. Ishe also talks about fighter health, the need for PED testing, and so much more. It's a must-listen.
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24 Aug 2026
Episode 27: Duane Ford
One of the most experienced officials in boxing, Duane Ford judged over 700 fights, including 300 title bouts, in his career. He is now president of the North American Boxing Federation and a vice president of the World Boxing Council. In this episode, he discusses training officials, secrets for maintaining maximum concentration ringside, how to make scoring clearer and more comprehensible, and some of his own more controversial scores.
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Alan Rogol
Marc Ratner
Nitin Sethi
Michael Schwartz
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