Buatsi on training in lockdown, Olympic what-ifs, and the Yorkshireman who fought Ali
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
2016 Olympic bronze medallist Joshua Buatsi explains how he's staying in shape during the lockdown, and reveals his thoughts on news that the Tokyo Olympic are going to be delayed until 2021. Then, Mike and Steve discuss an interview from the archive with Richard Dunn, who fought Muhammad Ali in 1976.
Mike's fight recommendation of the week: Marquez v Vasquez 2 (2007) Steve's book recommendation of the week: The Devil and Sonny Liston by Nick Tosches Homework: watch Liston v Clay (1964)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.4 | 5 Live Boxing |
| 0:06.6 | And thank you for joining us once again on 5 Live Boxing with Costello on Bunts and |
| 0:16.5 | although the arenas around the world have fallen silent Steve they're still plenty to talk |
| 0:20.9 | about and since we last got together on Monday of last week the Olympic Games have been |
| 0:25.8 | postponed should have been taking place in July and August this year in Tokyo but looks |
| 0:30.5 | as if there'll be happening in 2021 at some stage. |
| 0:34.7 | Well you knew that Nostradamus Costello because you told me when we were sitting watching |
| 0:39.2 | the boxing at the XL the last day the last hours the last minutes of boxing you told me |
| 0:44.4 | then there's no chance the Olympics will be taking place and you're absolutely right. |
| 0:48.7 | I've done about you Mike but I've been busy answering phone calls, busy answering texts |
| 0:54.9 | and emails I must have made contact with 50 people from the boxing business some of them |
| 0:58.9 | have not spoken to for several years and I'm not sure if this could continue for the next |
| 1:02.4 | three months but right now it's fantastic. |
| 1:05.4 | And I've been on air half a dozen times across the past week Steve with the various boxing |
| 1:09.7 | issues we'll discuss the implications of the Olympics per moment with the bronze medalist |
| 1:14.8 | from Rio four years ago Joshua Boatsey but what else have you been up to Steve in the |
| 1:20.0 | interim are you bored yet it struck me just this weekend for the first time it's not |
| 1:24.0 | as if it you know it's ridiculous to describe everything that's happening as a novelty but |
| 1:29.2 | getting used to not having events to look forward to didn't really affect me until this |
| 1:35.8 | past weekend when I would have been at the O2 arena for look not a monumental show but |
| 1:41.0 | Josh Kelly against David Avernesian and it was just a chance to get back to see some |
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