How to become a boxing promoter

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports News, Sports

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Steve sits down with Boxxer founder and CEO Ben Shalom. At 29, he is not only Britain’s youngest licensed boxing promoter but has also positioned the company as one of the leading forces in the sport. They chat about his journey from humble beginnings to putting on some of 2022’s biggest events, and the highs and lows encountered along the way.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.8	Let's get ready to rumble!
0:08.2	Five-line boxing!
0:15.2	The legendary AO Arena here in Manchester,
0:20.6	boxer and promoter,
0:22.8	Vangelome, proudly present,
0:25.4	live on Sky Sports Box,
0:27.4	saw the main event of the evening.
0:31.0	Vangelome, now a year ago,
0:33.0	you probably had never heard of Ben Chalom.
0:36.3	But in just one year,
0:38.3	he gait crashed British boxing.
0:40.9	He took on the established giants
0:44.2	of the boxing business.
0:46.7	He took on the big boys,
0:48.6	and he's still only 29 now.
0:52.4	2022 was about Ben Chalom,
0:56.1	British boxing and sky.
0:58.6	He wasn't afraid to put on fights
1:00.8	that people said couldn't happen.
1:02.8	He put on the first ever all female card at the O2.
1:08.1	Just under 20,000 went to it.
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