At Home with the Sauerlands

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports, Sports News

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Buncey sits down with promoters Kalle and Nisse Sauerland from Wasserman Boxing. They look back at how their father Wilfried Sauerland became involved in the sport and how he went on to become one of Germany’s most prominent promoters. They share their memories from that time and some of the extraordinary tales their father recounted to them. They also reflect on the highs and lows of the business they run today, which has branched out into the lucrative world of cross-over boxing.

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0:00.0	John, how would you describe the Ellis James and John Robbins podcast on BBC Sounds?
0:07.0	In a word, hmm, award-winning chat for a digital Britain.
0:10.0	How about you, Ellis?
0:11.0	Hmm, for me it's a pulsating hub of world-class content respected by generations to come as the
0:16.2	absolute zenith of digital artistry.
0:19.7	You don't think we're over-selling it, do you?
0:21.2	Yeah, by quite a lot. The Ellis James and John Robbins
0:24.0	podcast out on Tuesdays and Fridays. Listen on BBC Sounds. This is five live boxing.
0:34.7	Back in the 1970s, 80s and early 1990s, German boxing, and in fact African boxing belong to one man. A man called Wilfred Sowland, a visionary, a great
0:47.3	promoter. He put shows on around the globe including Las Vegas. Now he's 83 years of age now
0:56.0	Wilf and he's as good as retired but his sons Nissa and Kala they keep the
1:01.3	business going and you all know that they've been involved with all sorts of fighters over the last 25 or so years from Marco Hark to Chris Yubank Jr this is a very special edition. It's at home with the Sourlands. I'm Steve Bunce and this is
1:19.0	Five Live Boxing. So the sour lads now if you're a German boxing fan it might be about the only name you know and if you're a Zambian boxing fan and if you're a Zambian boxing fan it might be about the only name you know. And if you're a Zambian boxing fan, it might be about the only name you know.
1:37.2	Now, I couldn't get the patriarch, I couldn't get the governor here. He's 83 years of age, He's relaxing. I couldn't get him here. But I got his sons who run,
1:46.1	well I'm not quite sure what they run. They run the business. They run part of the business. They are the business.
1:50.3	Whatever. Who does? Got them in front of me here, Nissa and Kala.
1:53.7	First of all, fellas, welcome to the pod.
1:57.0	Thank you.
1:58.0	So before we move on, what's your roles now?
2:00.0	You do go first, Kala.
2:01.2	What's your role now? Oh, Bunzy, that's a tricky one.
2:05.0	You got plenty of time.
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