Hearn, Shalom and the fight of the year
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Barry Jones joins Buncey to reflect on a big weekend of fights and announcements. With confirmation that Jack Catterall will fight Regis Prograis in August, we hear from promoter Eddie Hearn. Ben Shalom is also on the pod as his fighter Tyler Denny beats Matchroom’s Felix Cash. And did we witness the fight of the year on Saturday night?
Plus, we look ahead to a huge night in Phoenix this weekend as Juan Estrada and Jesse Rodriguez fight for the WBC and Ring Magazine super flyweight world titles.
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| 0:00.0 | Boxer turned bouncer Viv Graham was one of the northeast most notorious hard men. |
| 0:06.5 | It was huge, you were strong, we could take anybody out. |
| 0:09.0 | Not many men on earth could match Viv Graham. |
| 0:11.6 | But his life of violence led to his downfall. |
| 0:15.0 | Why did it happen? |
| 0:16.0 | Why did they do that? |
| 0:17.3 | How did Viv Graham build an empire? |
| 0:19.8 | It was the power, the presence, the aura. And who was he, really? |
| 0:24.8 | Gangster, the story of Viv Graham. |
| 0:27.6 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. This is five live boxing. |
| 0:34.7 | So just three months after Jack Catil beat Josh Taylor. |
| 0:37.7 | He's got a massive fight plan for Manchester in late August. |
| 0:41.6 | I'll have that news for you. Plus it's been an enormous weekend |
| 0:45.0 | European title fights, the fight of the year, and what's more? I'm on the pavement. |
| 0:51.0 | I'll explain all in a moment. I'm Steve Bunz and this is most definitely |
| 0:56.4 | Five-Life boxing. |
| 1:03.7 | So we're with Barry Jones now Barry and I were in Bolton then we were in Birmingham |
| 1:08.4 | and we had fights all over the place and what we're gonna do is we're gonna do |
| 1:11.5 | something here we haven't done for an awful long time. |
| 1:13.6 | We're going to call it the pavement pod. And that means that we recalled it walking along a pavement. |
| 1:19.7 | And it seems to make sense. |
| 1:21.5 | Now Barry, there were loads of fights, |
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