Joe Egan is an Irish retired

professional boxer Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is regulated, sanctioned boxing. Professional boxing bouts are fought for a purse that is divided between the boxers as determined by contract. Most professional bouts are supervised by a regulatory autho ...

and

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

Boxing career

Egan was a participant in Dublin's Phoenix Club as an amateur boxer. Egan has won the Irish Heavyweight Boxing championship four times.

Other ventures

Egan appeared in the 2009 film ''

Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...

''. Egan was dubbed “toughest white man on the planet” by boxing legend

Mike Tyson Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005. Nicknamed "Iron Mike" and "Kid Dynamite" in his early career, and later known as "The Baddest Man on the Planet", Tyson is cons ...

. In 2009 Egan published his autobiography.

References

Irish male boxers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Boxers from County Dublin {{Ireland-boxing-bio-stub