A proper British heavyweight title fight
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Buncey’s in London at the launch press conference for the British heavyweight fight title between Fabio Wardley and Frazer Clarke. He chats to the pair, who both make a convincing case why their route to the top gives them the edge. Promoter Ben Shalom is also on the pod to give his take on the fight and updates us on some other news from his stable. And British light-heavyweight prospect Ben Whittaker, who won a lot of fans (including Shaquille O’Neal) following his last performance reacts to accusations he disrespects opponents with his showboating style of fighting.
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| 0:40.3 | This is five live boxing. |
| 0:44.0 | The British Heavyweight Championship has always been one of my favorite titles. |
| 0:48.0 | Henry Cooper, Joe Bogner at Wembley, Gary Mason, Lennox Lewis, both unbeaten at Wembley. |
| 0:55.2 | Daniel Du Bois, Joe Joyce, behind closed doors, drama, blood, intrigue, |
| 1:01.7 | unbeaten boxes, veterans, giants. |
| 1:05.0 | I love that division, I love that title. |
| 1:08.0 | And now we've got something with the same sense of history, I really believe that. |
| 1:12.0 | Fabio Wardley against Big Fraser Clark. |
| 1:16.0 | The Heavyweight, the British Heavyweight title. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm Steve Bunce and this is five live boxing. |
| 1:29.9 | So I'm in a hotel just behind Liverpool Street Station and there's plenty of people floating around and I'm going to speak to everybody involved with this fight 31st of March at the Ojo-T. I'm going to start with the British champion. A man that won the title in short and had a good defence in Saudi Arabia. |
| 1:49.5 | Fabio Woldley joins me. Now Fabio, first of all, when I spoke to you, and I'm going to go back to first of all when I spoke to you and I go back to that |
| 1:54.1 | night when I spoke to you in the ring after you'd beaten David Adelay in your |
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