Greatest Fights: Benn v Eubank with Richie Woodhall
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The night that "changed British boxing", according to Steve Bunce: Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank's torrid 9 rounds at the NEC in Birmingham in 1990.
Former world super middleweight champion Richie Woodhall joins the podcast to remember the night, which heralded a boom period for boxing on terrestrial TV in the UK.
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| 0:45.0 | Kostello and Bunce's greatest fights. |
| 0:49.0 | Great to have you with us again on Five Live Boxing with Costello and Buntz for the |
| 0:56.7 | latest in our Greatest Fight series and for the second time in the series we're staying in the |
| 1:01.8 | UK Steve going back to November 19th. in the |
| 1:05.0 | National Exhibition Center in Birmingham |
| 1:08.0 | and a fight that you described in your book |
| 1:11.0 | as one that changed British boxing. I think it did. Bishy Bank against Nigel |
| 1:16.2 | Ben. I think it did. I think it shifted the way we look at fights. It shifted why we went the |
| 1:21.6 | fights. It was almost like 1990, but we finally stepped into a new |
| 1:27.1 | color age, an age of real hyper, an age where not even the two best middleweights in the southern area of the country, not just in |
| 1:39.0 | Britain, were fighting and the nation stopped. You couldn't buy a ticket. The ringside seats were a |
| 1:46.2 | ridiculous 200 pound. The promoters were told you'll never sell those tickets. The promoters were told by some |
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