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5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

Pod on tour - Billam-Smith in Bournemouth

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports, Sports News

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Buncey travels to the south coast for an evening with WBO World Champion Chris Billam-Smith. Surrounded by his fans at AFC Bournemouth, they discuss his journey from delivering Chinese food to becoming a cruiserweight world champion. We also hear from his wife, Mia, who shares her experience of being ringside when he won his world title. Chris also answers questions from the audience, including a particularly embarrassing one from his friend and trainer, Shane McGuigan.

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0:00.0

Storyteller. I think what drives me on has always been curiosity.

0:03.6

Activist definitely was a builder of the bridge between music and charity.

0:08.6

Superstar.

0:09.6

Seventeen Grammy Awards, four Britain Awards, 2 Ivan Navello Awards.

0:13.6

This is the story of Sting.

0:15.8

Eres, Sting.

0:17.8

Oh a boy done good, from the terraces of Wall's end, the Solbeck stadiums across the world.

0:22.4

Join me, Vernon Kay, as I get into the career of the Solbeck stadiums across the world.

0:22.5

Join me, Vernon Kay, as I get into the career

0:24.8

of one of Britain's best-selling artists.

0:27.0

Listen now on BBC Sounds.

0:28.8

Just search eras Sting. This is a five live boxing.

0:35.0

On the road again, the hometown heroes series continues.

0:40.0

Carl Frampton in Belfast, what a night.

0:43.0

Joe Kowzaki in a comedy club in Cardiff was unbelievable.

0:46.0

Tassa Jonas outdoors in Liverpool at the start of the summer.

0:50.0

This time it's Borma, a world champion, a gentleman and a man with a plan and a dream

0:57.2

for a massive unification fight in Saudi Arabia. I'm Steve Bunce. This is five live boxing on tour once again.

1:18.8

So let's give if we can a very special and warm welcome to the gentleman that's not enough to Chris Bill and Smith that's not enough to the hero of all Bormuth, the world cruiserweight champion,

1:26.3

Chris Billum Smith. Thank you. Hello, when we when we arrange this one I said of all the ones we've done, this will be the gig where all

1:57.1

Chris has got to do is come on and do a crossword and after 30 minutes have a break and then come on and do another crossword.

2:05.0

Because I just got that feeling because I mean I don't want to embarrass him and embarrass you guys, but it really feels like

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