Benavidez v Yarde: Eddie Hearn

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports, Sports News

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Where does Bam Rodriguez sit on the current pound for pound list? And how the fight between Anthony Joshua and Jake Paul made?

Eddie Hearn sits down with Buncey to answer those questions, ahead of a night of world title fights in Riyad. They discuss Subriel Matias’ failed doping test and where it leaves Dalton Smith. Plus, Eddie shares the story of a very expensive beard trim.

There's commentary of David Benavidez against Anthony Yarde on 5 live and BBC Sounds from 2am on Sunday. Commentary of the undercard, including Sam Noakes against Abdullah Mason, from 11pm on Sports Extra.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.5	This winter, cricket's oldest rivalry is reignited.
0:15.0	England and Australia do battle to compete for the ashes.
0:20.8	That is extraordinary.
0:23.1	Hear live ball by ball commentary on Fife Sports Extra.
0:27.4	And get analysis and reaction of every day's play with the Test Match Special podcast.
0:32.9	The Stamps out of the ground.
0:34.4	Test match special at the Ashes.
0:37.3	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:40.3	This is Five Live Boxing.
0:45.3	So it's Riyadh, four world title fights, something ridiculous, like 176 wins and zero losses.
0:53.3	That's what seven of the eight boxers are sharing.
0:56.2	It's quite a ridiculous bill.
0:57.9	Anthony Yard's fighting for the WBC light heavyweight title.
1:01.5	Sam Nokes from South London is fighting for the vacant WBO lightweight title.
1:07.1	And Bam Bam Rodriguez is on the bill,
1:09.3	one of the top five fighters in the world.
1:12.6	Now, what happens in Saudi Arabia is you spend a lot of time waiting.
1:17.6	You wait around in marble hotel lobbies underneath chandeliers with a massive echo.
1:23.1	You can hear it here.
1:24.5	Then you sit down with people and it takes a long time.
1:27.4	You have a date, you know, a date to eat. Not you don't with people and it takes a long time you have a date,
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