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Ringside Toe2Toe Boxing Podcast

Fight Week daily | Top Rank boss, Brad Jacobs talks super fights and heavyweight unification

Ringside Toe2Toe Boxing Podcast

Sky Sports

Sports, News, Sports News

4.1918 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Andy Scott and John Dennen are joined by Brad Jacobs, the Chief Operating Officer of Top Rank and former European middleweight champion, Matt Macklin as the build-up continues to Fury vs Usyk.

Brad talks to us about the incredible run of recent fights he's travelled to and gives his thoughts on the weekend's huge heavyweight showdown.

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0:00.0

Well good evening wherever you are in the world we are bringing you some bonus

0:03.2

podcast action from on the ground here in Riyadh we're actually at the grand

0:07.2

arrivals I'm joined by John Denan and we've managed to rope in someone who doesn't

0:11.2

particularly do as much media work as I would like

0:13.7

actually I'm acting as your agent CEO CEO of top rank yeah CEO who's who's

0:20.9

counting Brad Jacobs now the reason that I bought you in is because I just bumped into you and you told me this great story about your passport stamps and where you've been and your frequent flyer miles incredible so starting from your place of departure

0:35.1

where have you been to get to this point? Yeah so this past 10 days we've

0:39.8

been started in Japan for Inoue's defense of the Tokyo Dome 55,000 was a great event

0:45.4

amazing and then we made our way to Perth Australia for George Cambodia and

0:50.9

Lomachenko and the refreshed and rejuvenated Lomachenko again in front of a

0:56.0

saw crowd in 14,000 on a Sunday morning and now we're here in Riyadh for the undisputed

1:02.3

heavyweight championship and on to lead And now we're here in Riyadh for the Undisputed Heavyway Championship and onto Leeds, England from here.

1:06.0

So it's a big show.

1:09.1

Am I allowed to ask you, so at this point in time, so I'm talking local time now is quarter to 8 in the evening.

1:17.0

What time's only you on?

1:18.0

So when did you wake up?

1:19.0

What have you eaten?

1:20.0

Are you on breakfast time?

1:22.0

What the hell is going on? I truly don't know. I just keep going and get some sleep when you get some sleep and answer emails and do what we need to do.

1:31.0

What a life, John. I mean basically basically, John and I will do these things.

1:34.4

But deep down, we do have sensible roles, but we're boxing fans.

1:38.0

Out of that lineup, which was the one, okay, we're not counting, we're not there yet.

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