Hopefully Liam Neeson, 66, tuned into The Wendy Williams Show on February 5.Nick Cannon, 38, who’s filling in as host while Wendy Williams is on hiatus due to health conditions, challenged the actor to a celebrity boxing match. Liam Neeson's career in the teaching profession came to an abrupt halt after a 15-year-old kid pulled a knife on him. Nick Cannon challenged Liam Neeson to a celeb boxing match, after he addressed the actor’s controversial interview, where he admitted that he contemplated carrying out a racist revenge attack… Does Liam Neeson actually have martial arts skills? Switching gears to pursue an interest in acting, Neeson joined the Lyric Players’ Theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1976, and then the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Browse The Independent’s complete collection of articles and commentary on Liam Neeson. At the age of nine, Liam started boxing at All Saints Youth Club, and later became an amateur senior boxing champion. Long before he became a bonafide action star, Liam Neeson dreamed of becoming a professional athlete. I know he was a boxer for a time back in the 80s but in the Taken films he seems to actually know what he is doing.

Like, e.g., Liam Neeson. LIAM Neeson decided to become an actor instead of a boxer but he has never lost love of the sport and its heroes - … If you don't believe boxing is a martial art, pick a fight with a boxer. ( …

Liam Neeson narrates boxing documentary about Manny Pacquiao. Liam Neeson has dramatically stood down as president of his childhood boxing club in Northern Ireland in what is understood to be a disagreement over his support for legalising abortion. Liam first stepped on the stage at the age of 11, after he was offered to play the lead role in a school play. At age 9, he joined a local boxing club run by his family's parish priest.

Liam Neeson Was Fired As … Before becoming a world-famous actor, he forged a promising career in boxing as a juvenile champion. Neeson boxed for several years, from childhood and through his teens.

Liam Neeson has dramatically stood down as president of his childhood boxing club in Northern Ireland in what is understood to be a disagreement over his support for legalising abortion. TIL Liam Neeson was an Irish amateur boxing champion, a forklift driver for Guinness and dropped out of a degree in computer Science all before the age of 25. Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952, in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.


Is this all fancy camera work and Hollywood or does the actor Liam Neeson know how to actually take someone down? The 66-year-old took time out from filming to visit the club All the latest breaking news on Liam Neeson. Father's Day Ireland 2018: Liam Neeson tops poll as nation's favourite dad Fitzpatrick has been involved with the boxing club since 2011 when he made the donation on the RTE 1 programme. Actor Liam Neeson pictured at amateur boxing club in Dundalk, Co Louth. Liam Neeson has been pictured demonstrating his boxing skills at an amateur boxing club in Dundalk, Co Louth.

Liam Neeson Facts. He was named Liam, after local priest. Actor Liam Neeson, in a break from filming in the North, with Paul Taafe, of O’Hanlon Park Amateur Boxing Club, Dundalk, and hotelier and long-time friend John Fitzpatrick. Yes.
The Taken star, 66, took some time out from filming duties in Belfast to visit O’Hanlon Park Amateur Boxing Club where his close pal Hotelier John Fitzpatrick has a vested interest.