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Joe Egan | True Crime Podcast 246
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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