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🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Buncey is joined by Barry Jones as Eubank and Benn face off at the grand arrivals in London. They speak with promoters Eddie Hearn and Ben Shalom and dive into the 35-year history behind this rivalry.
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0:41.3 | This is Five Live Boxing. |
0:50.0 | 34 years ago at the NEC in Birmingham, I sat down for one of the greatest fights to ever take place in a British ring. |
0:52.7 | Nigel Ben against Chris Eubank. |
0:57.5 | This Saturday, I'm going to sit down six feet from the canvas to watch their sons, Chris Jr and Connor Ben fight each other. And the week has started. We'll hear |
1:04.0 | from the fighters, we're here from the promoters. This is about tradition. This is about rivalry. |
1:10.5 | This is about hatred. This is about rivalry. This is about hatred. |
1:12.3 | This is a family fighting feud like no other fighting family feud in the history of boxing. |
1:20.2 | I'm Steve Bunce and this is Five Live Boxing. |
1:36.3 | Now, one of the beauties about eating in Canary Wharf is because I've been in and around Canary Wharf for 25 years, I know the best places. And I really do. So there's an Italian here that I like to come to. I'm not going to mention it because I don't get a discount, so I'm not going to mention it. But it's brilliant. And it's speciality, different types of mozzarella cheeses, different types, dozens of different types. |
1:49.4 | So I've come here with Padilla the Producer, because we like to feed him occasionally, and Barry Jones. |
1:54.3 | Now, we're going to try and talk about the ground arrivals. We'll hear from Ben Chalom, the promoter, and we'll hear from Eddie Hearn, the promoter. |
2:05.2 | But what we're really going to talk about, and that's why Barry's here, because in the second of the fights between the dads, that was the old draft, the theater of dreams. |
2:10.3 | 48,000 people, Chris Eubank and Nigel Ben, the rematch, the draw, what a fight it was. Well, it wasn't a greatest fight, but the atmosphere was unbelievable. |
2:19.1 | And the man that set the crowd in motion, the man that made his way through the tunnels to the ring, |
2:25.5 | to fight on that night, was you, Barry Jones. |
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