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5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

In Conversation with Ben Shalom

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports News, Sports

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

When’s Adam Azim getting his world title shot? And is Lauren Price really set to take on Claressa Shields? Buncey puts it all to Boxxer CEO Ben Shalom in a wide-ranging chat. They also talk Frazer Clarke, Martin Bakole and Richard Riakporhe. Plus, find out why Belfast was chosen to host his stag do!

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0:37.8

This is Five Live Boxing.

0:40.8

So in a week when three enormous fights are taking place in all sorts of places,

0:44.7

well, Wolverhampton, Tokyo and Las Vegas.

0:47.9

I decided to sit down with Ben Shalom, the boss at Boxer,

0:51.5

the man with the deal with the BBC.

0:53.7

The man who seems to be well always getting stick from just about everybody.

0:59.3

I'm Steve Bunce and this is Five Live Boxing.

1:04.9

So inside one of those fancy workspaces that you get all over the country,

1:09.0

there's palm trees, double espresso machines,

1:11.2

a table tennis table. In fact, if anyone fancies this game with table tennis, Ben Shalom and I are going to have to move because we're right in the way of the forearm. The four-arm return. First of all, Ben, how are you? How are you? Very well. I'm very well. I had there. We're? Tell the truth. Yeah, I just said to Steve, I had my

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