 Welcome to Toffy TV, bit of a treat today for you boxing fans. We've got Peter McGrale and Joe McGrale here, both fighting next week at the M&S Bank Arena. I can't ever get over saying the echo arena. It will always be the echo. It will always be the echo arena. It will always be the echo arena. It will always be the echo arena. It will always be the echo arena. It seems to be like the meche in the UK for boxing fighters. It seems to be brilliant. It is, it is. It seems to be brilliant. It is, it's good. Obviously I had my first two fights there. I had a debut there. And just boss, boss, boss the boxing there. Obviously we're all love the scousers in there as well. Yeah, and it's obviously had the MMA stuff as well. So we had meatball, paddy there. So I mean this, what is it about this city and fighters? I don't know, there's just always been good fighters throughout the years haven't they? Obviously you've got Bellyw, as you mentioned before. You've got the Smiths as well. And in the cage warriors, the UFC now. I had the cage warriors in me, because that's what I've been to in the echo. But yeah, in the boxing and the MMA scene at the minute, it's a flippers line in it. Scousers, scousers are taking over. Pete, you've been an arm for a long time in the amateur scene. Joe, you've only just started but you're 19, you're 25 in the 26. 25 on. Stay 25 as long as you can be. So obviously different sort of paths. You were Commonwealth Games gold medallist, European gold medallist as well. How does that work? What's the amateur like different to being a pro? Yeah, so obviously the amateur is you've three round fights. You could box like three, four, five times over the space of a week to ten days. You weigh in every day. I had to box in the GBA to go to Sheffield every week. Monday to Thursday sometimes away in mad places. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia, America, all mad training camps on that. But it was good experience eventually, obviously. Got to the Olympics, which is what I stayed amateur for to go to the Olympics. And then obviously now I've turned pro back in Everett Nett triangle. I was missing a lot of time in there. I just had to go down to Sheffield all the time. It feels like the national one, isn't it? We've seen Anthony Joshua and the people that go there. So now I'm pro back in the gym, obviously with my brother. All the lads in my coaches, Paul, Paul and Anthony. It's good times back home with the family all the time. So I'm made up and he was up to them. He could have tried to go down that route. Try and go to the Olympics, but between us all, I'm obviously the main person to make the decision. He wants to turn pro, and it's great now. We train alongside each other and we didn't come together. Try and create that dynasty like the Smiths have. Both big Evertonians, of course. That's why we've got you then. We wouldn't want you to go in there. Both big Evertonians. Did you take anything into the ring with you? You know, we've seen Tony with the dead cars and Molly's in the US. She's got the flags and the scars. Is there anything you take representing the club? I'm going to always wear a blue shirt. I think for me next fight, I'm going to get on the woman who does the shirt, get a little shatter and see her somewhere on there. I don't know whether it probably depends on how we get on against Leicester. If we win, I might go on to the 11th. You want to jump on the good feeling we win, don't you? I've not been on to Antoine Pavers yet to get a bit of a mix going. I've just come out to dancing in the moonlight. When a boxed years ago, obviously for GB, it was called The Lion Art, it was sort of similar. It was amateur boxing, it was called World Series Boxing. It was a bit more similar to pro boxing, you'd have a walk-out tune in that. And I picked that tune in that tune, so it was just stuck to me. Literally, I reckon sometimes more than once a month, but at least once a month, I'd get a phone call or a video on Snapchat, or a voice note on someone's out in town or somewhere, and that tune comes on. So it's like that song sort of stuck to me. Doesn't strike me as the boxing song? If I go for a run, it's always like an AC DC comes on. It's a bit of a boxed tune there to walk out to. I know what you're saying, but just because obviously, when I was walking out in the WSB, it used to be in your call, it used to be packed on that tune, just when I was walking out to a boxing thing, and then it all stuck, and then when I think about it, the way I box, I am dancing under the lights in the ring, so you can look at it that way. Oh yeah, yeah, it's your own personal thing. It's like you're married, you have your wedding song, listen, there'll be loads of people out there going, why have they got this song? It all means something to each other. But obviously next Friday, 22nd of April, it's a big night. It's a big weekend in it. I don't want to think about stuff like that. No, but if obviously, we're after a good weekend too, in Dr McGrayle, isn't it? I don't want to think about things like that. I think about the boxing then, isn't it? So is that why you're just fighting on the Friday night then, just to avoid the... No, we'll still probably be going on the Sunday, but obviously we're just focused on our fight first, because... So you've fought quite recently as well, haven't you? You're fighting like December? We both boxed in December. We both boxed in December. We both boxed in December. We both boxed in December. We both fought in December then. I fought in February then, when was your last one? I boxed four and a half weeks ago. Is that normal? Sorry, three and a half weeks ago. Is that normal? When you start, is that normal? Say now, that fight was a six round fight. My next fight was an eight round fight, so I was like, I'm not in like 12 round wars where I'm going to need... That fight only went two rounds, or bruzzolo, my face, or... I was just ready to go again, as fast as I could. So it's the best way to be, just stay busy, stay active, keep your eye on and keep the ball rolling. I've been to box of size, I know how tough it is. Seeing when you use a phone, obviously because you're just starting, you're doing the show to the hands, but what's it like fighting your family in that, at M&S? Yeah, it's boss, you know, because obviously I was on GB for years, so I was always, just mad places, I've been all over Europe, as I said, named a few places before, just where there's no one there really, but to be honest, the years I've been about having years, I've been to China, all over Europe, Bulgaria, Germany, obviously all over England, over the years. I've been all over England to watch him as well, and we've been over to Ireland, so the family was there sometimes, but the programme just feels a bit different. A lot more people have bothered, you know what I mean? Yeah, because it's gone, I'm a lot older news too, but it's gone, it always used to obviously, always used to feel like it was going one direction, you'd have a few fights and then it would always seem to be like Vegas or Wembley, and it would always used to feel like for a lot of fighters, you'd have one defeat and it was like they were finished, but now, the way it's gone recently, the way all the different TV channels and there's a lot more local rivalries, it seems, I don't want to say like wrestling, but you know the way, you see the way Tyson Fury's building up to fights now, it seems to be a lot more people are in it and a lot more people are, there's a lot more good nights as well, certainly Liverpool, the way they have the nights now, but without having to have like these huge like one-off names carry in the night as well, it's like a good local fighters and people will turn out safely in Liverpool. This show, next radio, it's just basically Scouser all the way through, so it's going to be a good night for Liverpool like. I mean, hopefully that weekend isn't good for Liverpool, but... Liverpool as a city. Do you like houses? Do you like carry that about, when you fight just, because obviously like Tony, obviously Tony Belly is a huge Evertonian, he doesn't mind telling people, and Molly is, she wears all the Evan's stuff, but I know, I've recently, she is, there's more of a Scouser feel about things, she's making sure she's representing everyone, just do that, or just like, I'm Evertonian. No, but obviously everyone knows her blues, it's been on for years even when I won the Commonwealth Gold, went on the pitch at half-time and that, but, I don't know, I see myself as a Scouser, and my blues, but I think most proper Scousers are blues anyway, so it's one of them. It's all right, Tony. No, it must be like that, because you, I do feel sometimes when you're watching a fighter, it's certainly all the good ones that Evertonians, but when you do watch a red, I do feel sometimes there is that thing of like, do I really want these to win? Do I really want these to win? But ultimately, I do think, because with Scousers, it does come through in the end, doesn't it? Yeah, it's like if a Scouser is fine, no matter what they're fine and how they're fine, it's like, I'll back the Scousers, I always want the Scousers to win. Yeah, of course, always. But obviously, both Evertonians, does that go hand-in-hand? Does it ever stop you going on a match, or does it get in the way, or do you have to ever think about that? Yeah, well, as I said, we keep going back to GB when I was on GB, I had the season to go, and then obviously it was just a win on top, going away on my training camp to that, so we just ended up getting rid of the season to go, and since Monday the leave, was it last year then in August? Left last year in August, and obviously we just buy to go to now whenever we can, but we're on the waiting list for the... for the... for the new ground with it? Probably like the... I don't know. Every time I do something, I say to whoever it is, see what you can do for it. Do you have to start? I don't know. You have to get into them, and get better at going to bit them. I'm sure they'll sort it out. I'm sure if... I was going to say, what's the next game after that? I'm sure if you win, they'll get you sorted. Is it Chelsea? It is Chelsea, isn't it? Sorry, I'm just thinking about these games, and just like Jesus Christ. But obviously, it's been a hard end this season. Does that help you? Does that help you? Now when you watch Eric get beat, and you go into the gym and you think, right, I can get stuck into someone here. Give the blues something to smile about in it. No, but do you think you go into the gym? Just go on, right. Watch them at last night, and you'll be back to someone now. You've just got to forget about it, because basically most of the season you're at, they'll just be back to the table training. But hopefully, that game on the weekend might have helped to swing things around, but we'll see. Yeah, it has been, it's just been an absolutely horrible season, and just... Did you just go to the United Game? Yeah, we were there. I think you all come and got some tickers off us. Andy Gordon. Andy Gordon. Oh, brilliant. He was saying to him, keep us up lad. And he said I will do, so he was laughing obviously when he spoke. Have you had any plays come to you yet, saying you want tickers for your fights? Just Gordon. He said good luck on that. Obviously he's a young scouser, and he's doing a bit in the premsaw. He's obviously not the same as us, because we're on different paths where boxing and things go, and we're both trying to smash it in our own things. He's obviously always wished me luck whenever he's had a good game, which is most games, he's always been the most positive thing out of the season, and he's the only one at the moment. There's not that many unfortunately, there's not that many young scousers in the Everton squad though. Obviously, both of you are just starting out, just waiting for that, I suppose getting your name out there a little bit. It doesn't help that you're on the waiting list. I can't believe you're on the waiting list. I've just been away most of it for a long time. As you said, we just end up waiting tickers, don't mean going, but to produce these sometimes. On the old stuff, it's just been horrible season, but I suppose having those players, if you have got players giving you a little bit of wishing you well and stuff. That's the thing you do see. Tony Bell, obviously you used to go to Finch Farm, and when you watched him fight, it was because of the way he got himself too, obviously, you'd see still Van Distan, Leon Osmond, even David Moises, that's the kind of fight. Obviously he got to the peak, he got to the pinnacle, he got to fight at Godderson Park because you'd ever see yourselves fighting at Godderson one day. Probably hopefully be the new ground. Be the new ground, yeah, by the time? By the time, yeah, it's going to be, I don't even know, about two or three years from now, it's going to get to the world title. Showing me that, yeah. And then it'll maybe be the new ground, yeah. If it all might have both of you on the same bill, is that the ultimate goal? Is that, how's that like, waiting, because obviously you're 25, not nearly 26, and you're like 19, so is it the same path or because you've had all that amateur experience but it's just the same path, or will you be pushed more and more because you've had all that experience? No, probably he's got the experience in amateur, so he can be like pushed quicker and sort of fast-tracked, I'm only 19, so I can sort of just take me time and go about it in a, I don't know, try quiet away. Was it following him that got you into it or did you always have that? No, no, I've been boxing since I was 7, I've been around it since I can remember it cos obviously watching him in the amateurs, winning national titles and stuff like that, so I'm just sure to go through him, really. And what will be after this fight, how soon after this fight, do you think you'll be fine? I've got nothing planned at the minute, but just ace it really. Obviously it depends how the fight goes, obviously such would come out no injuries in that, just as soon as possible, really. As I said at this stage of the career, just about building up the rounds, getting used to obviously boxing at the longer rounds, this fight tonight and then maybe do one or two more of them, and then push on to tens and then once you're in the 10 rounds then you can start boxing for like international titles and that and then obviously push on from there, but what I was thinking about at the moment is this fight, but as soon as I've obviously got the win, I'll be speaking to my team straight away, probably on the night if not, go for a little sit down day after and speak about what's happening. Get out as soon as for both of us. Who else is anyone else on the build that people will be looking to and thinking, go on and watch them fight? Yeah, just loads of scouts really, you've got poor butlers, the main event is from Elzmureport then you've got Sam Maxwell quite a well known fight from the pill, Rocky Fielding, Jazzy, another blue, Jazzy's on it, Blaine Island's on it, E-Boxed, I've boxed for a few years in Sheffield where I'm from GB I think there's an Irish kid, Stephen Kent and then two lads making a debut Frankie Stinger in Arri-Kinney so I think that's not a bad everyone, it's all going to be a good night So that's next Friday on 22nd, full of scouts it's always mad down there when the boxing's on whichever level, it's always amazing so if you want to go and watch the lads fight next week, it should be a good night ahead of the Magistar Dabi weekend I just don't even want to think about but it's a brilliant start to that weekend so you can go and check out the lads fighting there as well, have loads of scouts on a brilliant card at the M&S arena stop scene echo arena and all we can hope for now is a couple of wins and then on the pitch and in the ring as well so hopefully everything should be alright that's the one I know hopefully, are you confident? not on the fight but on Evan about what Steve? I'm confident I think it's all on the on games but I think we're confident that's it good stuff, so if you want to check the lads out make sure you go and get yourself some tickets get down there and go and watch them fight it should be a start of a brilliant weekend he says I'm confident in you I'm just not confident in Evan we did it there you go, make sure you check them out as well both on Twitter? follow yours on Twitter no I'm not on Twitter are you keeping it lowkey? on Instagram mate I understand why you're on Instagram there you go, thanks for watching I'll see yous later