Fearless Macklin ready to take a couple of belts

Matthew Macklin faces a third world title bid in Connecticut tonight. John Riordan spoke to him in New York City this week.

There’s no fazing Matthew Macklin.

It was perhaps unwise to sit him down for a chat at the side of the blue ring centrepiece of Lower Manhattan’s Trinity Boxing Club during the week. However, when one of the two sparring fighters inside the ring careened backwards onto the ropes and grazed a little too heavily off the unsuspecting middleweight world title challenger, Macklin barely raised an eyebrow and continued his response without missing a beat.