The Mammoth Book of Hard Bastards by Robin Barratt

Author:Robin Barratt [Barratt, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: True Crime, General
ISBN: 9781849017596
Google: DR3BBAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2011-02-24T05:55:41+00:00

“BIG” JOE EGAN (IRELAND)

Irish Heavyweight Boxer

Introducing … “Big” Joe Egan

MIKE TYSON CALLED “Big” Joe Egan “the toughest white man on the planet”. And he wasn’t kidding. Joe was a phenomenal and ferocious boxer and by the age of twenty-four had recorded over eighty amateur wins and seven Irish titles, as well as a Golden Gloves championship title. Originally from Dublin, Joe fought a total of eleven times wearing the green vest of Ireland, going the distance with Lennox Lewis and beating future WBA champion Bruce Seldon.

On his route to becoming professional, Joe joined Mike Tyson’s training camp in the Catskill Mountains, USA, and became good friends with the champion. However, Joe’s dreams of becoming a world-class professional boxer were suddenly shattered following a serious car accident on the night of his second professional fight. And then his personal life hit the headlines when his fiancée, Irish model Lisa Murphy, left Joe for Riverdance and Lord of the Dance star Michael Flatley. The downward spiral continued with a new pub business venture pitting Joe against protection racketeers armed with guns, axes and machetes. Joe was shot and later charged with attempted murder.

In May 2004, after an absence from the ring of twelve years, at thirty-eight years old Joe Egan made his boxing comeback. Joe is now also an actor and author. This chapter, taken from his autobiography Big Joe Egan, The Toughest White Man on the Planet, briefly chronicles a number of episodes in his life as it starts to spiral out of control and he gets involve in the pub business, racketeering and crime.

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