Farewell to Foreman and Hart
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
As the boxing world mourns the loss of Colin Hart and George Foreman, Buncey revisits a special episode of the pod he recorded last year, marking the 50th anniversary of the iconic Rumble in the Jungle. In it, he sat down with Colin to relive his vivid memories of that unforgettable night in Kinshasa, when he was ringside to witness Muhammad Ali knock out Foreman and reclaim the world heavyweight title.
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| 0:00.0 | Did you know that you can listen to many of your favorite podcasts first on BBC Sounds? |
| 0:06.9 | Like Friday Night Comedy, where you can hear the latest episode seven days earlier, |
| 0:11.0 | and a week is an extremely long time in politics. |
| 0:14.4 | Good things come to those who don't wait. |
| 0:17.4 | Listen to your favorite podcasts first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:23.3 | This is F Live Boxing. |
| 0:26.3 | We found out over the weekend that two true boxing giants had died. |
| 0:32.3 | One a heavyweight champion and the other a heavyweight writer. |
| 0:36.9 | George Foreman was always known as Big George. |
| 0:40.6 | Colin Hart, for 50 years the boxing writer at the Sun, was always known as Hartie. |
| 0:47.5 | Now last October, on the 50th anniversary of the Rumble in the Jungle, Harty was ringside, |
| 0:55.8 | Big George was in the ring, |
| 1:04.1 | I went to sit with Hardy in his house to get the real story, to get some insight, to get some love, |
| 1:12.1 | to get some true knowledge about one of the most unforgettable fights in history. I'm Steve Bunce, |
| 1:16.8 | and this is a very special tribute on Five Live Boxing. |
| 1:22.9 | And I'm now in Harty's office. |
| 1:24.5 | Now, this is not a normal office. |
| 1:28.2 | It is just devoted to a few pictures of grandkids, a couple. |
| 1:28.9 | Don't get me wrong. |
| 1:29.7 | He's got to have them on the wall. |
| 1:35.3 | And the rest of it are just pictures of a life ringside around the globe. |
| 1:38.3 | What we're going to talk about today, Colin, if we can. |
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