Ant Middleton

Eddie Hearn: No Passion, No Point

BBC

Sports, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

One of the World’s best-known sports promoters Eddie Hearn chats to some of the biggest names in sport, entertainment and business. This series includes in-depth interviews with Frank Lampard, Dina Asher Smith and Virgil Van Dijk. Eddie learns about their passions, what gets them up in the morning, and how they dealt with the world grinding to halt this year.

This week, Eddie is joined by Ant Middleton. 2020 has been a difficult year, so Eddie talks to Ant about his time in the military, how he coped with hardships in his life, including a spell in prison, and the mindset you need to drag yourself out of difficult situations, which, in Ant’s case, saw him write books, set up his own business and fronting the hit TV show ‘SAS: Who Dares Wins’.

No Passion, No Point is produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies, and is a BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 5 Live. Listen now on BBC Sounds.

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0:00.0	For all things football,
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0:20.0	Everything Football, every day.
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0:25.0	listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:34.5	My
0:36.5	My name's Eddie Hearn and this is no passion, no point.
0:44.0	The biggest challenge for us through the pandemic is keeping these major fight nights together.
0:50.0	You saw a fight camp of course, you saw Dylan White against Alexander Perveekin, thrilling, and now we closed the year with the return of Anthony Joshua against his mandatory challenger, Kubrat Pulev at the O2. Can't wait to see him back. you know, it will it be a year since he's been in the
1:05.1	ring, since regaining his titles against Andy Rees. I've never seen A.J. so focused, of course,
1:10.5	all the talk about the undisputed fight with Tyson Fury but that comes next
1:14.4	year we can't look past Kubrat Pulev he's a fantastic fighter top 10 with every governing
1:19.4	body probably top five with most he's the challenger, one defeat on his record to the great
1:24.8	Vladimir Klichko and that's it. So a really dangerous fight and the final
1:29.2	hurdle to get through until the undisputed fight with Tyson Fury.
1:33.8	But back at the O2, the Lions Den,
1:36.0	where it all started for Anthony Joshua many years ago.
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