Billy Joe's back, Deontay's underrated and Josh Taylor: world champion?
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Former super middleweight champion George Groves joins the podcast to talk about the upcoming fights this weekend, including Billy Joe Saunders v Shefat Isufi for the WBO super middleweight world title, Deontay Wilder's return to the ring against former Anthony Joshua opponent Dominic Breazeale, and his former training mate Josh Taylor's bid for a world title in the semi final of the World Boxing Super Series against Ivan Baranchyk in Glasgow.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.2 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:06.9 | We'll start properly in a minute with George Groves in the studio as our guest. |
| 0:11.3 | In fact, we had such a good time talking to George that we ended up recording enough for |
| 0:15.8 | two podcasts. |
| 0:16.8 | So what you're about to hear is George, Steve and myself talking about Billy Joe Saunders, |
| 0:21.9 | Josh Taylor, Dion Tay Wilder and much more. |
| 0:24.8 | And then on Tuesday, we'll put up our conversation with George, focusing on his career as a bonus |
| 0:30.8 | podcast. Thanks for listening. |
| 0:32.6 | Five Live Boxing. |
| 0:40.1 | And thank you for joining us once again. |
| 0:41.8 | And this week, it's Five Live Boxing with Costello and Bunts and this man. |
| 0:46.2 | And this is a pivotal moment you get the sense in the fight here because Groves lands another |
| 0:52.2 | brilliant right up a cut. |
| 0:53.7 | Then it overhand right another right up a cut. |
| 0:55.9 | Tune it off. |
| 0:56.6 | Back off for the first time in the contest. |
| 0:59.8 | He's trying to stand his ground. |
| 1:01.4 | He's so great. |
| 1:02.6 | But he's being out punched at this stage now. |
| 1:04.9 | This is a big attack from George Groves. |
| 1:07.4 | A succession of right hands, left hooks, another right hand. |
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