Greatest Fights - Gatti v Ward I with Paulie Malignaggi
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Reliving the ten round classic between Arturo 'Thunder' Gatti and 'Irish' Micky Ward, in the company of former two weight world champion Paulie Malignaggi.
Ward later became the subject of 2010 film 'The Fighter', and was played by Mark Wahlberg.
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| 0:00.0 | It's 2003 in Birmingham. |
| 0:04.4 | Doors have been slammed in your face, you're not welcome here. |
| 0:07.1 | They were capable of murder. |
| 0:08.4 | Drive-by killings, gang wars, a vigilante group that fought against Jamaica's notorious yardies. |
| 0:15.6 | The home boy thought we're not going to take this anymore. |
| 0:17.8 | We're going to be even more violent than you. |
| 0:19.6 | Before turning on each other. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Livy Haydock and this is gangster, the story of the Burger Bar boys. |
| 0:27.6 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.1 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:38.7 | Kostello and Bunce's greatest fights. |
| 0:47.9 | Thank you for joining us once again on five live boxing with Costello and Bunce as we continue our series rewatching some of the most significant fights of our boxing lifetimes. |
| 0:53.7 | Today, Steve, a showdown which ranks on the all-time list of just about everybody we know |
| 0:59.0 | in the sport. |
| 1:00.0 | With a round that Manny Stewart said should be called the round not of the fight not of the year but of the century |
| 1:07.3 | Gatti and Wald won |
| 1:10.0 | You know what's interesting about this fight Mike is that like lots of the fights that we do in this series |
| 1:16.1 | You look back on it and you forget parts of it now that's shameful. How can you forget parts of it and you also forget where it came in their careers? |
| 1:24.8 | Hand on heart, I would have had money with you that this came before X fight or B after after another fight. |
| 1:30.7 | It doesn't. It sits where it does and I'm quite |
| 1:34.1 | staggered at the tricks my memories played on me in the 17 or so years, 18 years |
| 1:39.7 | since it took place. I'm stunned. You know what? It happens every single time we sit down and go |
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