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Boxing Life Stories

#12 Mike Costello

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary


The BBC's voice of boxing and athletics Mike Costello is one of the most popular commentators in sport today. The host of Radio Five Live's boxing coverage and boxing podcasts, Costello speaks about his career trajectory from amateur boxer, to coach to a man who has been ringside at some of the biggest fights of this era. Here is the man – the voice – away from the prize ring, talking about his life behind and away from the microphone.

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And they laughed at me and said,

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you're not going to get into the BBC, you know, a tow rag from South London.

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You just, you know, with no qualifications, you know, I had a couple of O-levels, but that was it.

0:40.3

You know when the events are really big when all your family texture good luck and all the

0:47.4

editors around the BBC texture good luck and you sometimes that's that's the worst thing you get on the afternoon of a fight. You think, Jesus, this is bigger than I even thought it was.

0:57.0

There's almost a sense of relief when you get back to the hotel or when you wake up the next morning

1:04.0

there's like a sense of relief that you've not had a call to say that one of them

1:08.1

is in hospital. Hello and welcome to Boxing Life stories. My guest this week is the BBC's voice

1:27.8

of boxing Mike Costello. Mike has spent a lifetime around the sport from amateur fighter to coach to become arguably

1:34.9

the nation's favorite boxing commentator.

1:37.4

I joined Mike in the BBC studios this week and we spoke about his career so far.

1:41.9

The highs and the lows and the big fights of major events

1:44.8

and much more, all in the aftermath of that sensational light in Los Angeles where he commented

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