Boxing’s back on the BBC
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
How big a moment is it to see live boxing back on BBC television on a Saturday night? Buncey speaks to Frazer Clarke and Jeamie TKV ahead of their British heavyweight title fight in Derby on October 25th, live on BBC 2. He also gets insight from the BBC’s Kal Sajad and asks former British heavyweight Clifton Mitchell what it really means to fight for the Lonsdale belt.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Your time starts now. |
| 0:07.2 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | Absolutely right. |
| 0:11.5 | So, you might like to know that the BBC makes loads of other podcasts. |
| 0:15.6 | Really? |
| 0:16.4 | Wow. |
| 0:17.2 | Many of them are very funny. |
| 0:19.1 | Which I think means... |
| 0:20.3 | A hatful of ha-hars. And energy. Even if we do say so ourselves. I agree 100% to that. Find them all on BBC Sounds. Just tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Just search comedy on BBC Sounds. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in. |
| 0:40.5 | This is Five Live Boxing. |
| 0:53.7 | Quite often I try and make my intro slightly lyrical and I make reference to something there might be, I don't know, I might be on a beach in California, I might be up a mountain in Saudi and I try and make it clever and smart. |
| 0:54.7 | Not this time. |
| 0:56.3 | This is the intro to this pod. |
| 1:00.8 | On BBC 2, on October the 25th, between 8 and 10, |
| 1:07.4 | there will be a British heavyweight title fight between Fraser Clark and Jamie TKV. |
| 1:08.1 | That's it. |
| 1:09.0 | Those are the facts. |
| 1:11.5 | I'm Steve Bunce and this is Five Live Boxing. |
| 1:23.9 | So what better place to talk about the return of boxing to the BBC than an old warehouse, |
| 1:30.3 | converted warehouse by an old canal behind Kings Cross. Ideal place. And I'll tell you why, |
| 1:36.2 | shall I? Because from where I'm sitting, if I could see through this building, I would actually be able to see a thing called the British boxing board of control gym at Kings Cross, |
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