Punch Perfect: 1. Power
episodePreviously titled “1. Power” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 8, 2026
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Here's what's coming up on today's episode.
I thought you was going to go with another middleweight. I will give you that when you're up. There is absolutely no human being on planet Earth that says Canelo hits harder than Golovkin.
Yeah, ginger people have a higher tolerance to a lot of pain and drugs. Welcome to your new favorite podcast. This is the Punch Perfect podcast where we'll be attempting to build the perfect fighter. A Frankenstein go of boxing as it were. I'm Emily Eubank.
I'm Liam Gough. And I'm Mr. Adi Oladipo. And look, this is well overdue, right? I know a lot of you have been asking for this for a long time. So we're going to have a conversation amongst friends and it's going to be no fluff. So it's not going to be blocked by broadcasters or promoters telling us what to do. We're going to give you honest takes and boxing politics is off the table. It's going to be fun.
And swear warning. There may be swearing in this episode. More from you. More from me. I will admit that. But we all do get passionate.
I don't swear though.
Nor do I. Em says she doesn't swear, but I've heard it.
Em says other stuff.
Yeah, a lot of other stuff. Em says other stuff.
A lot of other stuff.
That might need to be bleeped as well. Okay, so before we start, I think we should all pick our entrance songs.
Our entrance songs.
Yeah, so we've sold out the O2.
Okay.
What are you walking out to?
I am going to walk out to Spitfire by Prodigy. I'm going to be like George Groves.
Oh, okay. Give us a little bit because I don't know it.
When George Groves fought your brother, that's what he walked in a ring to in Manchester. This is cheeky. George won that fight. He did win that fight.
He did win that fight. He's picking a walkout song where the guy beat your brother.
I'm trying to get him off that subject and you keep coming back to it. Sorry, sorry. Give us a little bit of Spitfire.
They call me Spitfire. I don't even know what he says because he's screaming into the mic. I don't even know what he says. I just know it's something, something, they call me Spitfire. Something like that.
Okay.
I like to think that was a good one.
And he does that big, like, quick walk.
He does that big, quick walk. When you see him come up to the ring, you know your business is going to go down. I would try and copy that. That's how I'd be doing it. Straight to the ring, Spitfire, there you go. Yeah, it's a good show.
And your fighter name? What's that?
I've got two names, right? So for the longest time, I was known as Liam the G-Man Goff. So it would have to be- So did you name yourself that?
No.
I used to train as an amateur. And the first ever time I went to spar, one of the trainers just goes, here comes the G-Man. And it just stuck.
What are the hosts' introductions and entrance-song banter?
People in the gym just started calling me G-man. Because of Gough. Because of Gough. My last name being Gough, right? But also, I used to want to be a boxer and I often thought about this. I love history, as Ade himself knows. And I always thought, could I get like a historic kind of nickname for a king or someone and put it in like a boxing name. And there is one name that I love and it was Edward of Woodstock, the Black Prince. So I would use that. Interesting. I don't know how that would go down. I don't know how it would go down, but I would use it.
So you would be Liam the Black Prince, Gough?
Yes. a white Irish guy walking out as the Black Prince.
Yes.
Yeah, no, I see how it works.
I see how it works, yeah.
I would do that.
Yeah. I would do, I'd wear black attire, of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As you are doing now. As I am doing now. Thank you very much.
See, they're the Black Prince. Okay. If you had to pick one, what are we going with?
G-Man.
Okay. So, G-Man.
Mm-hmm.
Ade, what are you going with?
I would walk out. I don't know why. I'm always obsessed, sorry, with DMX. Just starting to get really hyped. Oh, oh. Yeah, anything like that. Because Mike Tyson used to walk to the ring with DMX in the latter stages and it used to scare the you-know-what out of people.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:17
2
What are the hosts' introductions and entrance-song banter?
3:17–4:28
3
How do the hosts pick walkout names and nicknames?
4:28–13:35
4
What is 'The Clinch' debate: would fighters choose a million over a Zuffa belt?
13:35–20:48
5
What rules and goals define 'The Blueprint' for building the Frankenstein fighter?
20:48–22:48
6
Which fighters do the hosts nominate for 'power' and why is George Foreman chosen?
22:48–26:08
7
Who else is proposed as the hardest punchers (Valero, Ernie Shavers, Tyson, Zhang)?
26:08–36:51