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Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Boxer-Actor John Duddy’s Festival Raves

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
April / May 2017

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Making the rounds and earning raves at film festivals is Irish boxer John Duddy’s acting debut Emerald City. The film, written by Northern Irish native Colin Broderick and produced by Irish Downton Abbey star Brendan Coyle, looks at more recent Irish immigrant laborers in New York City. As the Derry Journal newspaper noted: “The identity of the Irish worker in New York finds … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
Boxer-Actor John Duddy’s Festival Raves

Irish Eye on Hollywood:
John Duddy Boxes to the
Big Screen

By Tom Deignan, Contributor
April / May 2016

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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 … [Read more...] about Irish Eye on Hollywood:
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Big Screen

John Duddy: Actor

By Thomas Hauser, Contributor
February / March 2015

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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 … [Read more...] about John Duddy: Actor

John Duddy Wins Again

By Thomas Hauser, Contributor
August September 2005

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June 11 was a big night for the Irish in boxing. In Washington, D.C., journeyman Kevin McBride outlasted a fading Mike Tyson to put the final nail in Iron Mike's career coffin. But Tyson-McBride was about the past. The future of boxing was on display at Madison Square Garden, where John Duddy of County Derry continued his climb through the middleweight ranks. Duddy fought … [Read more...] about John Duddy Wins Again

The Boxer

By Marilyn Cole Lownes, Contributor
June / July 2005

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Looking out of a window of the famed Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn, John Duddy's fresh young face lights up with sheer delight at even the sight of a blinding blizzard in early March 2005. Unperturbed, the 25-year-old fighter from Ireland says, "From the moment I arrived in New York I felt right at home here." It was in March 2003 that the middleweight boxer left his family back … [Read more...] about The Boxer