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Eddie Hearn: No Passion, No Point

Canelo, Saunders and Tyson Fury

Eddie Hearn: No Passion, No Point

BBC

Sports, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4867 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

One of the World’s best-known sports promoters Eddie Hearn chats to some of the biggest names in sport, entertainment and business, including Rio Ferdinand, Barry Hearn and Amelia Dimoldenberg. He’ll learn about their passions, what gets them up in the morning, and how they built their successful careers.

This week, Eddie’s arrives in Dallas, Texas ahead of Canelo Alvarez's bout with Billy Joe Saunders amidst controversy and drama, so Eddie wants to chat to both of the boxers before the defining fights of their careers, so far.

Saunders is up first, and chats to Eddie about his prep and expectations for the fight, and how his family and community give him the motivation to make him the fighter he is.

Eddie then catches up with Canelo to get the view from the other corner. They discuss growing up in Guadalajara, what boxing means to Mexican and how long he's planning to stay in the sport.

And to cap off a crazy fight week, the 'Gypsy King' Tyson Fury drops in to chat about the most anticipated fight of the year against Eddie’s main man, Anthony Joshua.

No Passion, No Point is produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies, and is a BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 5 Live. Listen now on BBC Sounds.

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Now, before we get into it, I better let you know

0:37.0

there's some strong language coming up,

0:38.6

so listeners discretion is advised. So I'm just here in San Diego actually just walked into the famous Eddie Reyno

1:00.8

so canello at Alvarez, team gym.

1:04.0

And it's amazing, it's the first time I've been here, the home of the pound-for-pound,

1:08.0

number one in the sport, and the thing I love about boxing gyms is, it's Like if the normal personal fight then walked

1:15.6

into this gym they would not believe that Canello Alvarez, Ryan Garcia,

1:20.1

Andy Ruiz, Oscar the Lohoy, these kind of people have trained in here because there's

1:26.2

no, you know, this is just hard work and dedication and this is where the real work takes

1:31.1

place.

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