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Michael Conlan

Michael Conlan

Irish former professional boxer

Oct 15, 2026

17:17
Do you think Jonjo Joyce should be the national coach?
17:19
He should be.
17:19
He should be on that team.
17:21
Maybe not get thrown into the deep end right away and be the main coach, but Jonjo's knowledge of boxing is better than any coach on the team at the minute, in my opinion.
17:33
In my opinion, it's better than any coach on that team and has been for a good while.
17:39
And plus it's fresh, it's young, it's new, it's different.
17:42
He's also learning as a coach as he goes along and he's shown with the results he's bringing in that what he's doing is working.

22 MINS LATER

39:54
We've talked about how confident you were going to 2015 and it went beyond your wildest dreams almost and now you're going into 2016 and it's okay the world championships was competitive and tough but now you're adding Shakur Stevenson into the mix you're adding you know the Cubans going to be there again and but you're so confident and then for it all to go wrong not just for you but for Irish boxing must have been a fairly bitter blow do you still feel convinced that this was corruption at play or do you ever feel like performances from the team or from yourself were maybe not as good as you thought where do you stand 10 years later
12:55
What, as in the fights or the camps?
12:57
Listen, I always enjoy training, so I would never really say the camps.
13:02
They're tough, yes, but I enjoy it.
13:05
The only hard part about camps is being away from my family.
13:08
And that, as I've got older, has got harder.
13:11
When you're in training camp all the time and you're not seeing your kids, you're not seeing your missus, it's very tough.
13:16
So just the, I think it was always like, it was never stopping me to enjoy any moments, any of the big moments, because there were some unbelievable nights, some fantastic nights.
16:21
Like, what do you think about that? And is that something that plays on your mind? And like, I've not gone back and look, I'm guessing you weren't stopped much in the amateurs.
15:01
And, you know, you and I have talked about PDs and stuff before, like what, they're both the wild west like do you have a do you feel a certain type of way about either or both is one worse than the other is one better than the other or is it just both like ick
15:18
I would say professional boxing is worse.
15:21
Professional boxing is worse.
15:22
And then when you mix in, I see the event, Jazza Dickens' box on the internet is run by IBA, which is Aiba, the governing body, which was there when I was in Rio.
15:32
They're in the professional box and they have their own professional shows now.
15:35
And you go, okay, that could be much more crazy than anybody knows for corruption and things like that.
15:43
So... professional boxing is worse because in amateur boxing you know decisions and I would even say PEDs to the extent but They're under your control.

12 MINS LATER

28:28
Are you addicted to it? Is it just a thing? Would you feel a type of way if you went a few weeks without it?

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