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5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

Eubank v Benn: Eddie and Bazza

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports, Sports News

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Buncey sits down with Barry and Eddie Hearn to talk about this weekend's fight and the legendary clashes between their fathers. Barry promoted the first showdown between Eubank and Benn, and now Eddie takes the lead as promoter for Saturday’s bout.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

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0:10.8

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0:34.9

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0:41.3

This is Five Live Boxing.

0:45.8

So the fight week continues and now we're at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The ring is being constructed. I'm watching it. It's in front of me. Today they came head to head. It was the

0:49.5

final press conference and everybody was expected well. of fireworks there were fewer fireworks in fact

0:55.5

there were some quite meaningful exchanges verbal exchanges not punch exchanges that comes on

1:01.3

saturday night when connor ben and chris hubank do what they've been talking about for two and a half

1:06.8

years and what their fathers have been doing for 35 years.

1:11.6

And on the promotional side, it's also the father and the son.

1:15.6

I'm Steve Bunce and this is Five Live Boxing.

1:23.6

So what better way to try and solve some of the puzzles from this fight and the fight we've got coming up and the fights we've had Ubank, Ben, 3, if you want to call it?

1:34.8

What better way to solve some of the puzzles than to get the two men together in one room around the table?

1:40.4

Not on a Zoom, not on a telephone call, not in a press conference, to get them

1:45.4

round the table, close the door and do a ding, ding, let's go. In one corner, Barry Hearn,

1:51.9

promoter of the very first fight and the man that put it together from nowhere when people

1:55.4

said it couldn't be done, he made it done, and Eddie Hearn, the man who's put together

1:58.8

Saturday's fight, again, people said it

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