Apr 20, 2026
A few months back, I went to a Jo Koy comedy show up here in Redding, CA. His opener was comedian, Joey Guila. Joey had the audience in the palm of his hands with his great delivery. I knew I wanted this guy to come on our podcast to say “Hi”. Like Koy, Joey is a proud Filipino. In the late 1990’s Joey was...
Mar 28, 2026
Dec 31, 2025
It would be hard to find a fighter whose family was more involved with boxing than the Byrd family. His father was the head Olympian coach, his mother was also involved, his brothers, and his sister was three-time world champion, Tracy Byrd. Even his dog was a boxer. Chris was a silver medalist on the 1992 USA Olympic...
Nov 22, 2025
This past Wednesday evening, trainer Robert Garcia came on for his yearly interview with TheBoxingBar podcast. At that moment, he had just finished breakfast in Saudi Arabia where he is at for this afternoon’s big fight between his fighter Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez (22-0, 15 KO’s) and Fernando Daniel Martinez (18-0,...
Aug 16, 2025
Joel “El Platanito” Salas started his professional boxing career on June 25, 2000. Salas fought fifteen professional fights and stopped fighting in 2003. Joel is the son of Jose Salud “El Platano“ Salas. Jose was from Puruandiro, Michoacan, Mexico but later trained in Mexico City and almost made the 1968 Mexican...