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🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Top trainer Shane McGuigan joins Buncey to explain how he prepares a fighter for fight night. From cutting weight for the weigh-in to the moments before the first bell, he shares the practices and processes that he and his team go through to ensure their fighter is in the best mental and physical condition.
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0:00.0 | My name is Joe Wilkinson and I've managed to force Patrick Bamford to come on a |
0:05.4 | podcast of me and he's going to slowly fall in love with me. Do you go to the tip? |
0:09.2 | Believe we're not, yeah, I do. Do you go to the supermarket? No. You know when all the shirts started getting |
0:15.5 | tie on the players and they started selling them like that to the general public? |
0:20.1 | Yeah yeah and everyone looked like a sausages. |
0:23.0 | My mate's a footballer with me, Patrick Bamford and Joe Wilkinson. |
0:27.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
0:30.0 | This is five live boxing. |
0:35.0 | In the week when Chris Billum Smith will defend his World Cruiserweight title, |
0:40.0 | I took some time to sit down with Shane Leggan, his trainer, to find out not what happens in camp, |
0:45.8 | no what happens in the week of a fight, but what happens in the 24 hours before the fight. |
0:51.6 | It's a special, it's in-depth, it's full of knowledge, it's full of |
0:55.2 | nuggets. I think you're gonna like it. I'm Steve Bunz and this is a five-life |
0:59.7 | boxing special. |
1:00.9 | Shane, thanks very much for finding some time to talk with me. |
1:08.0 | And what we're doing, Shane, is it's going to be, it's a man we're talking about. |
1:11.0 | I know you've got Caroline Dubois in your stable, that's the key word these days. |
1:15.6 | I know you got Caroline Dubois and she does tend to. We're talking about a man in a 12-3 championship fight and not a heavyweight, |
1:21.5 | so weight is a factor to a degree. |
1:24.0 | Okay. Let's, so it's the day of the weighting. You've done your 9, 10, week, 12 week camp. |
1:29.0 | Where's the fight to stay in that morning? Let's say it's in, let's say the fight's in London or Manchester. Where's the fight to stay in that morning? Let's say the fight's in London or Manchester. |
1:34.4 | Where's the fight stand? |
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