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5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

In Conversation with Barry McGuigan

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports, Sports News

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Buncey sits down with former world champion Barry McGuigan. Following the release of a new BBC documentary that goes inside the McGuigan gym, Barry delves into what makes a successful stable of fighters, how his son Shane has become a top trainer and what it takes to bring through multiple world champions.

All four episodes of Stable: The Boxing Game can be watched on BBC iPlayer.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.

0:04.6

My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

0:08.4

As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable

0:14.3

experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC

0:20.4

makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,

0:24.6

poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.

0:29.7

If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected,

0:33.0

find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.

0:36.1

This is Five Line Boxing.

0:40.9

So sometimes we have to change the pace of the way we do our pods and this is one of those instances.

0:47.0

Barry McGwigen is one of the most recognizable names, not just in British boxing, but in British sport.

0:54.8

And I sat down with Barry McGreglan for a chat.

0:57.5

An informal chat, now the background to the chat,

1:00.8

is there's a brand new series, four episodes of a show called Stable,

1:06.0

about the whole McGuigan gym in East London. We'll talk about that. We'll talk

1:10.3

about everything. We might even talk about boxing.

1:13.0

I'm Steve Bunz and this is Five Live Boxing.

1:17.0

And Barry McGriggan is with me.

1:22.0

Now Barry, let's, um um before we talk about the stable

1:25.2

before we talk about the show before we talk about how it was filmed

1:27.9

and you're fairly private man and suddenly and I've seen there's like seven or eight members of this team

1:34.4

following you around showing up at the gym getting on planes of you at the

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