In this episode of the Empire Fighting Chance podcast, we are excited to announce a brand new partnership between Empire Fighting Chance and arguably the biggest global boxing promotion team in the world; Matchroom. We've got together with their community department, to deliver a three year program to over 100 amateur boxing clubs across the UK.

To commemorate this new collaboration, Neil has a conversation with the head of Matchroom's community development programme, Alex Le Guével. Alex used to work for England Boxing and has been involved in other sport development ventures in the past. He's been in this role at Matchroom for around a year so Neil and Alex discuss how he got there, the aims of the new partnership and what kind of impact Empire and Matchroom might have on boxing in the UK and beyond.

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In this episode of the Empire Fighting Chance podcast, it's all about professional boxing.

Neil chats with Empire coach and former British super lightweight title champion, Darren "Ammo" Hamilton. He's had 19 fights, 16 wins with three by knockout. He also had an illustrious amateur career with 27 amateur bouts, losing just four. But it's not all confined to the ring. He had to overcome many challenges as a young man and then as an adult; dabbling in criminality, spending time in custody and at one point in his life finding himself homeless.

He's now supporting young people as part of Empire Fighting Chance's programs alongside training up and coming professional boxers at the Bristol Boxing Gym run by Chris Sanigar.

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In this episode of the Empire Fighting Chance podcast, it's all about education. Empire works with schools across the city and beyond, and one of our key partners is City Academy the secondary school in St George. This week's guest is the Head of Inclusion at the school, Hardeep Konsal.

Neil talks with Hardeep about the future of schools, challenges young people face, education, league tables and more.

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