Boxing in Eddie Hearn's back garden; and Adam Booth on training and getting destroyed by Don King
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
After Eddie Hearn revealed he's planning to put on fights in his back garden, are we a step closer to the return of professional boxing? Mike and Steve debate the logistical issues with trainer Adam Booth, as well as looking at the path Booth took becoming a world title-winning trainer.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.4 | Five Live Boxing |
| 0:06.2 | Thank you for joining us on Five Live Boxing with Costello and Buns as Boxing's resumption |
| 0:16.2 | appears to be creeping ever closer if still a couple of months away and in these continuing |
| 0:21.2 | times of lockdown it's some time since we've spoken at Lent to a trainer so today we're |
| 0:26.5 | joined by one of the very best in Adam Booth who's with us very shortly but Steve, while |
| 0:31.7 | I've been away there's been a quite staggering response to the first two episodes of our |
| 0:36.8 | greatest fight series last week it was Tyson against Spinks the week before Sugar Ray |
| 0:41.7 | Leonard against Tommy Ernst and it's gone down pretty well. |
| 0:44.6 | I don't know about you Mike, I've never, we've never had a reaction like that. |
| 0:48.4 | We've had some reactions like that after, say, Joshua, after we're in a TikTok diner, |
| 0:52.5 | Joshua and Marie's we've got that same kind of reaction because people could hear the |
| 0:55.7 | rawness in our voice but I think it's been absolutely fantastic and people have loved |
| 1:00.8 | it and what they're doing is they're cherishing it. |
| 1:02.9 | People are literally like a favourite book they're putting it somewhere special, that's |
| 1:07.8 | not vanished inside your phone, that's been stored, I love that. |
| 1:11.4 | Another tweet Steve from Ian Riley said sometimes we forget how brave Leonard was because |
| 1:15.4 | of all the skill that he had, I thought that was a really good point, we'll be visiting |
| 1:19.1 | more of your emails and iTunes reviews later on and this week this Thursday on the greatest |
| 1:24.4 | fight series, it's Ricky Hatton and the night he beat Costa Zoo in Manchester back in June |
| 1:29.1 | 2005, another very special episode. |
| 1:32.8 | Just before we move on, Steve, and we're going to talk about Eddie Harnes plans to stage |
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