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5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

Greatest Fights - Carl Froch on Hamed v Barrera

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports News, Sports

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Former world super middleweight champion Carl Froch joins Mike and Steve to revisit the night in Las Vegas that came to define the career of Prince Naseem Hamed - a comprehensive defeat to the Mexican Marco Antonio Barrera.

19-year-old Froch was in the stands as a paying fan. Was Naz overhyped or did outside factors contribute to defeat in his most significant fight?

Transcript

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You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

0:05.2

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0:10.2

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0:41.0

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0:45.0

Kostello and Bunce's greatest fights.

0:50.0

And thanks for joining us once again on Five Live Boxing with Costello Bunce for the latest

0:58.4

in our Greatest Fight series.

1:00.4

Last week we heard from Ricky Hatton brilliantly detailing his amazing night against

1:05.2

Kostje's U in June of 2005. This time the focus on two more of Britain's great

1:10.7

boxing heroes in recent years. One of them in the ring, the other talking about the deeds of his hero, Steve.

1:18.0

Nassim Hamid finally gets to Las Vegas, but you know what, Mike, let's's tell the truth wasn't really the fight we

1:25.0

wanted. And we're hearing from Carl Froch talking to us about how pivotal that

1:30.0

fight was for him. It's against Marco Antonio Berero. We're going back to April of 2001,

1:36.2

as Steve says in Las Vegas and a night Steve, towards the end of Nasim Hamme's career. In fact, it would turn out to be the penultimate fight in his professional

1:45.4

career, a night when it's come to define him and all he achieved in his career for good or

1:52.1

for bad for the critics and for those who fell in love

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