Today’s episode pulls no punches. Joining us is someone whose voice you know from Sky Sports — a man who’s been ringside for some of boxing’s most dramatic moments — commentator Andy Clarke.

But today, he joins us not with a mic, but with a manuscript: his new book The Knockout: Sport’s Most Decisive Moment is out now in paperback.

In it, Andy dissects that split-second moment where everything changes — for better or worse. The knockout. How does it feel to deliver one? To suffer one? To witness one? From triumph to trauma, the book tackles it all.

Andy once said: 'It can feel like the air has been sucked out of the room when someone is in trouble, because you go from wanting to see a knockout to immediately wishing that it hadn’t happened.' We’re going to dig into that feeling, that whiplash — and what it says about the sport, the fighters, and us as fans.

We’ll also get Andy’s take on Manny Pacquiao potentially coming back at 45, whether women’s boxing is held back by shorter rounds when it comes to knockouts, and what to expect from Taylor–Serrano 3. Can Serrano find the game-changer she’s always chased — the KO?

Strap in — this is The Knockout episode of The Rocky Road.

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