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By Thomas Hauser, Contributor Middleweight champion John Duddy on hanging up his gloves.  In 2011, John Duddy retired from boxing. Living in New York, the popular Derry native had compiled a 29-and-2 record with 18 knockouts. He’d experienced the thrill of fighting before cheering crowds in Madison Square Garden and also in his beloved Ireland.    Now, at age 35, Duddy is pursuing a new career. He wants to be an actor. There is a long tradition of boxers trying their hand at acting. In the 1880s, John L. Sullivan realized that, as heavyweight champion, he could make large amounts of mon...

Buddy McGirt can relate to Derek Chisora’s supposed last hurrah. In deep conversation with Donald McRae the trainer and former fighter talks about his own gruelling past, the hardest decisions he’s made in the corner and the woman he owes it all to BUDDY McGIRT covers his face with his hands and begins to cry in his hotel room on a sunlit Saturday afternoon in London. The great American trainer, and former two-time world titlist, is 57 years old but the memories remain raw. McGirt shakes his head when I apologise for a question about his mother which has moved him to tears. He wipes his e...

First it was the Irish wrestler Sheamus appearing in the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. And now another world-class Irish athlete – boxer John Duddy – is making the leap to the big-screen. The Derry native will appear in the upcoming Robert De Niro movie Hands of Stone. The film tells the tumultuous life story of boxer Roberto Duran, with De Niro playing his trainer Ray Arcel. Arcel was active in the fight game for six decades and is said to have trained nearly 20 world champs. The film also stars Edgar Ramirez (as Duran) as well as John Turturro. Duddy will appear in the film a...

On This Day: After being conned by his manager Roberto Duran turns in the performance of his life to defeat Esteban DeJesus ROBERTO DURAN w rsf 12 ESTEBAN DEJESUS January 21, 1978; Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV ROBERTO DURAN is widely regarded as the greatest of all lightweights therefore this bedazzling beatdown of old nemesis Esteban DeJesus in their rubber match might just be the best ever lightweight performance. “Patience will win the fight,” Duran’s trainer Ray Arcel told him before the fight. And so it proved. Duran remained calm throughout the bad-tempered weigh-in and in the ea...