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🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Stacey Copeland joins Buncey from The Kingdom Arena in Riyadh as we get our first glimpse of the fighters. We hear from promoter Frank Warren who has been instrumental in putting the card together. Manchester-based fighter Lyndon Arthur who faces world champion Dmitry Bivol, is also on the pod, as is Jarrell Miller who has been ruffling a few feathers this week. And Joe Gallagher joins us to talk about the work he is doing with the Mike Tyson Boxing Gym based in Riyadh.
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| 0:39.7 | This is five lines boxing. |
| 0:44.7 | It's day one of the day of reckoning week and Anthony Joshua is back in business, back in a hard fight. |
| 0:50.7 | He fights Otto Valin in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday night. He's in the main fight, but there are seven other fights. It's an enormous fight night. It's going to be an enormous week. And we start inside the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh. |
| 1:20.3 | Honestly it's the same moon. The last time that moon was there, I was in this exact same spot, |
| 1:27.0 | getting ready to walk in and what's Francis Engarnu against Tyson Fury. Now I'm back. The Moon is back again, but I've got different |
| 1:36.8 | company this time. I've got no disrespects to some of the people I've been traveling with, |
| 1:41.9 | but I've really up my company traveling game I've got |
| 1:46.4 | Stacy Copeland with me now Stacy we won't bother doing all the in trouble the stuff |
| 1:51.4 | you've done because no disrespect |
| 1:53.0 | it'll be the first time ever that the Doncaster Bells have ever been discussed in |
| 1:57.2 | the Saudi Arabia so maybe we will do it later but not now. |
| 2:00.5 | Stacy first of all what's your you're here at the arena, we're not been inside yet, how'd you take it all in? |
| 2:06.8 | I mean there's a Walt Disney Palace over there, there's ridiculous light beams sending up into the sky, |
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