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5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

Cordina sweetens the pot in Monte Carlo

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports, Sports News

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Barry Jones is poolside with Buncey in Monte Carlo as they reflect on Joe Cordina’s win on Saturday night. They hear from both Cordina and his promoter Eddie Hearn. They discuss what they would like to see next for the Welshman and reflect on Ramla Ali’s win on the undercard.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is five live boxing.

0:04.7

Another world title fight, another fabulous location.

0:08.1

Palm trees and the sun is out.

0:10.4

It's Monte Carlo.

0:11.6

Joe Cordina retains his IBS super featherweight title with a surprisingly

0:17.0

hard point victory over Edward Vasquez. What a night, what a setting. What a weight of nica living. I'm Steve Bunce and this is five live boxing. And after two days of rain, the sun came out. And when I say it was a glorious day,

0:40.0

day after the fight. I'm not kidding. I went for a swim in the sea. Barry Jones

0:45.6

thought I meant to Paul. He didn't have any trunks. I said wear your kex. He said I can't

0:49.6

wear my kex. I understand why now because he thought we were swimming in the hotel pool.

0:53.8

No no no I went down to the beach where a policeman told me not to swim out too far.

0:59.5

I said don't worry about that I'm only jumping in.

1:01.9

It was absolutely beautiful

1:03.0

Barry you missed out on an experience no but there has been I think recently a lot of

1:06.9

trouble with older people like yourself swimming too fat out not able to get

1:10.3

back I think that's what it is if If I was the man with you he probably

1:13.1

wouldn't have said anything. No he would he would have looked at you and he would have

1:15.3

really he would have recognized a butterfly swimmer. A butterfly buoyancy. I tell you what it was

1:21.1

it was truly gorgeous what a splendid way it was also

1:24.0

about seven o'clock in the morning because I've really struggled to sleep out here

1:27.3

it's something to do with being on the road for the last two and a half weeks

1:30.0

and on the subject of being on the road for the last two and a half weeks, eight or so days ago,

1:36.0

I was up in the ring in Saudi in front of 20,000 people, 20,000 empty seats at that point, up in the ring, sharing the ring with Francis

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