Debunking The Board

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports News, Sports

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

How does British boxing really work? What does the Board actually do, and where does its money come from? Buncey goes behind the scenes with BBBoC General Secretary Robert Smith. From finances and licensing to disciplinary hearings, he explains how the Board operates and debunks some of the biggest myths.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:07.0	An early start here. It's time to kick off.
0:10.0	Your day. Morning!
0:11.9	What a line-up.
0:13.3	Oh, thanks very much. We do get some great guests on the show.
0:16.1	The crowd is loving this.
0:18.3	Thanks, guys. Thank you. Too kind.
0:20.2	From morning chaos to match day commentary.
0:23.6	And everything in between.
0:25.0	BBC sounds packed with personality.
0:30.8	This is Five Live Boxing.
0:33.6	So what does the British boxing ball of control do?
0:36.8	How does it get its money?
0:38.4	How does it deal with violations?
0:40.7	There are a lot of unknowns, a lot of myths and a lot of truths.
0:44.9	I put the questions to its General Secretary, Robert Smith, a former pro from a serious boxing family.
0:52.1	Robert Smith has been in the job 20 years now. It's time for insight.
0:57.0	It's time for some answers. It's time to tell the other side of so many stories.
1:02.0	I'm Steve Bunce and this is Five Live Boxing.
1:10.0	We're in your office here down in Cardiff.
1:12.2	There's a whole series of magnificent belts from the last 130, 140 years behind your bare-knuckle belts,
1:18.4	the first belt from the National Sporting Club, some absolute beauties on the wall.
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