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5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

How to build a boxing business

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports, Sports News

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Buncey sits down with Eddie Hearn and Frank Smith to discuss the growth of Matchroom Boxing. In a wide-reaching chat, they discuss how it grew from a small entity back in 2010 to one of the biggest boxing promotional companies in the world. They explain how it’s not been an easy journey, what pitfalls they encountered along the way and how they turned their vision into a reality.

Transcript

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You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and maybe it's when I had a hand in.

0:04.0

I'm Tammy Walker and I produce podcasts with a BBC.

0:07.4

My role is to give new and diverse creators a voice with the opportunity to build a career.

0:12.1

That's the thing I love about Podcast.

0:14.0

You start with just a good idea.

0:16.0

But then you have the space to see where it goes.

0:18.0

And doing that at the BBC means we can really run with the best stories

0:21.0

while developing the most unique audio talent.

0:24.0

So if you like what you hear, why not check out the huge range of

0:27.2

podcast we've got on BBC Sounds. This is five live boxing.

0:34.0

It was in 1982 that Barry Hearn set up a sports promotional company.

0:38.0

He called it Matchroom.

0:40.0

It was named after a special room in a local snooper club.

0:44.0

Matrim was all about snooker back then, but then it started to cover other sports, pool, bowling, darts.

0:51.0

Fishing, poker, and yes you guessed it, boxing. In 1987,

0:56.0

Matroom promoted Frank Bruno against Joe Bugner at White Hart Lane

1:00.9

when legends collide.

1:02.8

And since then, it has promoted the very best fight in Britain.

1:07.2

The 90s were brilliant, but then the boxing business slowed down.

1:11.6

And by 2010, other sports dominated match rooms output. That was

1:16.4

13 years ago and now boxing once again is in control. It dominates what

1:21.8

matchroom do. It's the biggest boxing

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