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Boxing broadcaster Ben Damon is joined by major domestic and international boxing names. The Main Event Boxing Podcast covers world boxing from all angles and keep fans up to date ahead of blockbuster bouts.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ben Damon's interviews turn Australian fight previews into candid accounts of preparation, ambition, setbacks, and the personal cost of boxing.
Ben Damon builds The Main Event Boxing Podcast around conversations that make a fighter's position before a major bout unusually clear. His questions connect preparation to consequence: Harry Garside considers his return to professional boxing, Sam Goodman discusses recovering…
Before the bell, Ben Damon lets you hear the bravado and what it costs to carry it.
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A focused Paris preview of Australia's biggest Olympic boxing team, with weigh-ins, medal hopes, and the personalities driving the campaign.
This podcast gives a clear Paris-side look at Australia's boxing team, with Ben Damon speaking with coaches Marco Sarmato and Shara Roma as the squad settles into the Olympic Village.
A candid prospect chat that ties ambition to family pressure and the next step up.
Paulo Acuso’s push toward his fifth professional fight gives this conversation its shape, but the appeal is wider than the record alone. Ben Damon steers it toward the mix of pressure, crowd noise, and family responsibility that sits behind a 4-0 prospect trying to turn early…
A loose but engaging 2024 boxing wrap that finds the year's bigger stories in the small details.
The Main Event Boxing Podcast spends its year-end review on a mixed 2024, moving between hard losses in Australia and overseas and the quieter progress of younger undefeated fighters.
A brotherly boxing sitdown where survival, pressure, and the next fight share the spotlight.
Billy Dibb's return sits at the center of this episode, and the conversation gives his recovery room to breathe before turning toward Yusuf Dibb's next fight.
A local boxing homecoming built on pride, support, and a clear run into fight week.
The piece presents Sam Goodman as a fighter who knows what a Wollongong headline slot means to the local crowd. It stays with the details that carry the moment: the reception after the Mark Schlebes night, the relief of getting home, the respect attached to a globally known…
A compact title shot story that keeps the boxing, pressure, and place in view.
Brian Mendoza's climb from swing bout status to world title challenger holds the piece together. The strongest detail is how that rise is tied to the emptying arena in Minneapolis, the grind in Vegas, the work with names like Yordenis Ugas and Caleb Plant, and the pull of…
A fight-week interview that becomes a blunt, human account of rebuilding.
This fight-week interview frames the March 12 bout with Ben Marnie, but the stronger pull is the boxer’s frank account of a recent past marked by drugs, police, a mental health facility, and redemption inside and outside the ring.
A world-title boxer faces a harder fight, and the conversation stays grounded in the human cost.
Billy Dib's story sits in two places at once: the height of a career and the hard edge of a new fight. A 54-fight veteran and 2011 IBF featherweight world champion, he is now dealing with an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Every man has a story. Keith one-time Thurman is definitely one of the people who challenged his own world record.
Jackson Murray tells Ben Damon how sparring Francis Ngannou in Las Vegas, with stitches in his eye, led to a Top Rank opportunity and a fight with Stephen Torres.
Liam Paro tells Ben Damon he wants to turn a June Fox Sports fight into a Queensland homecoming after spending years boxing in San Francisco and Puerto Rico.
Ben Damon speaks with Dylan Biggs at the Bo Desert Boxing Club in Queensland about the hometown that shaped him, the gym under trainer Justin's house, and the path from a troublesome kid to the Australian champion.
Ben Damon previews the April 6 Main Event card in Newcastle, headlined by Tim Zhu vs Joey Spencer and co-headlined by Brandon Gratch vs Liam Talibaa 2.
Ben Damon is in the build-up around Canelo Alvarez and Jermell Charlo as the tone starts to sharpen.
Former heavyweight boxing champion Joseph Parker discusses his upcoming comeback fight, revealing he was ill before his last loss to Joe Joyce.
Cohen Mazuya tells Ben Damon that the Nikita Tszyu fight on August 28 feels like something he has "visualised" and "dreamt of" for years.
Ben Damon interviews Australian cruiserweight Jai Opetaia ahead of his world title rematch with Myrus Briedis at Saudi Arabia co-main event to Fury-Usyk heavyweight championship.
Ben interviews Stevie Spark, Australian boxer preparing to fight Gabriel Golaz Valenzuela on Canelo Alvarez's May 7 undercard in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Boxing commentary with Shawn Porter (former two-time world champion) discussing Tim Zhu's emerging stardom in Australia.
Ben Damon hosts Brendan Bradford and Nick Walshaw on The Main Event Boxing Podcast to review 2023 in Australian boxing.
The Main Event Boxing Podcast opens with Ben Damon and Tony Harrison discussing the 12 March fight against Tim Tszyu for the interim WBO super welterweight super welterweight title on Main Event Television.
The Main Event Boxing Podcast episode centers on Jai Opetaia and Joseph Parker as both prepare for the Saudi Arabia card on Main Event television.
The Main Event Boxing Podcast speaks with Paulo Acuso, a 4-0 Australian fighter who says his style comes from Roy Jones Jr., Lomachenko, and a crowd-pleasing approach he started after an amateur fight against Germany in 2017 or 2018.
Ben Damon opens The Main Event Boxing Podcast with Billy Dibb, the Sydney boxer who won the IBF featherweight title in 2011 and now has aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Ben Damon sits down with Billy Dibb and Yusuf Dibb for a special Main Event Boxing Podcast conversation.
Sam Goodman is right in the middle of a big Wollongong build-up a couple of weeks before headlining again.
Ben Damon sits down with Western Sydney super welterweight Cohen Mazudia ahead of his fight with undefeated Ben Marnie on the Zoo v Harrison card.
Brian Mendoza sits down with Ben Damon as he heads toward a world-title fight with Tim Zhu in Australia on October 15.
The Main Event Boxing Podcast’s 2024 review centers on Sam Goodman’s late cut, Tim Tszyu’s year of brutal losses, and a run of major Australian fight weeks that included Nikita Zou vs Koen Mizudia, Liam Wilson vs Oscar Valdez, and Vasiliy Lomachenko’s May visit to Perth.
Fresh off his WBO Bantamweight World Championship victory, Australian boxer Jason Maloney joins the podcast to discuss his hard-fought win over Vincent Astrolabio, revealing he fought most of the bout with a broken hand.
Host Ben Damon interviews world champion boxer Jason Moloney ahead of his first title defense against Saul Sanchez.
Ben Damon opens from Paris with Australia's Olympic boxing team.
Tim Zhu looks back on a rough 2024, revisits the gruesome cut he suffered against Sebastian Fundora, and explains how he is handling the months after losing his world title and pulling out of the Virgil Ortiz fight.
Ben Damon speaks with Jason and Andrew Moloney as they get ready for world title fights one week apart in the United States.
Harry Garside says he almost stepped away from boxing after the Paris Olympics, then returned because he missed the boxing gym and the feeling of being driven by the younger version of himself.