On the Road with Hearn and Barker
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Buncey takes the show to an amateur boxing club in Essex and is joined by Eddie Hearn and Darren Barker. How close are we to finding out AJ’s next move? Eddie updates us on him and the fights he wants to see. They run through some of the upcoming fights in what is a special era for the sport. Olympic silver medallist Pat McCormack and British champion Reece Bolletti also pop along for a chat. And the guys discuss the importance of boxing clubs like the one they are in to local communities.
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting. |
| 0:04.7 | Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book. |
| 0:11.4 | But when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts. |
| 0:15.4 | I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds could take you into |
| 0:19.2 | a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to |
| 0:25.2 | give it a go myself, which, to cut a long story short, led to a BBC training scheme and a whole |
| 0:30.0 | new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories |
| 0:34.2 | that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC |
| 0:38.1 | Sounds. |
| 0:40.0 | Five Live Boxing. |
| 0:41.5 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:46.1 | So we decided to take Five Live Boxing on the road, and it's not as simple as you think. |
| 0:50.7 | You've got to get the whole team together. |
| 0:52.2 | You've got to get wagons of equipment and all sorts of staffing issues. You've got to get health and safety involved. And you've got to do loads and loads of things like that. And you've got people come down from events and you've got to get a guest list. You've got to get the guest list passed. So then we told the BBC, we weren't taking it on the road and we thought we'd do it on our home. It's a easier that's what we've done we have taken five live boxing on the road we are in essex at the place called the brentwood central boxing club |
| 1:15.5 | now about half an hour ago this room i mean i'm in the room surrounded by half a dozen people in about |
| 1:20.6 | 20 bags there were in this room maybe 30 or 40 local kids some dropped off by their mothers and I mean that. |
| 1:28.1 | Boxers being delivered with their gloves by their mums and then picked up 90 minutes later. |
| 1:34.0 | And the man that's in charge of this gym will speak to him. We'll also speak obviously to the man |
| 1:38.2 | who's very local to this arena, a man who claims that he's the best promoter in the world. |
| 1:43.6 | He's certainly the best dress promoter in the world. |
| 1:46.1 | That's Mr. Eddie Heard. |
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