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5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

Inside Dale Youth Boxing Club

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports, Sports News

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Buncey travels to West London to visit one of the city's oldest boxing clubs. He’s joined by three generations of the club's legacy: world champion George Groves, legendary trainer Mick Delaney, and Lucas Rohrig, who will be making his professional debut this weekend. Together, they discuss the gym's rich history, the challenge of relocating after the Grenfell Tower fire, and how some of the UK’s top boxing talent began their careers at the iconic club.

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0:00.0

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0:41.4

This is Five Live Boxing.

0:45.1

So every now and again, we have to do a pod that's slightly different. And this is one of those slightly different pods. I'm going to start by giving you a bit of news from Saturday

0:49.0

night at Wembley. Big Lawrence O'Cohle, the former cruiserweight and also Bridgerweight

0:53.9

world champion, gained weight for it, 60 pounds and fought as a heavyweight.

0:58.0

Two hundred and sixty pounds he weighed.

1:00.0

He needed about 134 seconds to take care of a guy from Germany called Hussein Muhammad.

1:06.0

He wasn't much, that's why Lawrence got rid of him very quickly.

1:09.0

But that wasn't really the main event.

1:11.6

The main event was Denzel Bentley winning the British middleweight title,

1:14.6

not for the first time, not for the second time, but for the third time.

1:18.6

O'Cole and Bentley will both be in, well, probably world title fights in 2005.

1:25.6

And the real part of the part, the part of the change in pace, and it's a lovely change in place, is I went along to the Westway near Notting Hill to a place called Dow Youth Amateur Boxing Club.

1:38.3

And I sat down in a chair, I looked through a window, and there I could see Grenfell Tower. And in Grenfell Tower, that's where Dow Youth used to be based.

1:46.0

They had to move out of Grenfell Tower when the fire took place.

1:49.0

And I sat down with three generations of Dow Youth veterans.

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