This is Five Live Boxing.

Let's end this crazy summer of boxing.

We have a change of pace because this summer we have been all over the globe.

We have covered some exceptional fights in some fantastic venues.

And one of them was the Tennis Center in New York, where we saw Hamza Shiraz destroy Edgar Belanger.

And Belanga had it coming, as they say, in the trade.

So I sat down with Hamza Shiraz.

Tea, coffee, cakes, waitress service, glorious hotel.

As I say, it's a change of pace.

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

So in New York, let me explain. In the ring, Hamza Shirez had ruined Edgar Belanger. It was a very joyful fight. It was also devastating. And I waited patiently outside the medical room for an hour. It was gone midnight. Hamza was still in there trying to do a sample or whatever he was doing in there. Then the next morning, I waited patiently, but Hamza was kipping. He's allowed to kip. They had to get on the plane. So it's been a few weeks since I've sat down with him. Hamza, first of all, let's go back to New York. Let's start with New York and we work our way back.

You and I talked before the fight. I said, you win this. You become one of the hottest properties in boxing. You not only won it, you won it in style. And at the end, you went down on your knees and just screaming.

Yeah, no, it was,

was it a sense of relief?

I don't know.

I think it was was a sense of relief, I don't know.

I think it was more a sense of I answered my own questions from the fight previous.

The world tried of fight before.

Previous.

And when we done the interview where you said he was going to be a superstar and whatnot, in all honesty, I noticed. I took no notice of it. I shouldn't have really said that really. Yeah, because I was so... I was zoned in, but at the same time, I was aware of my surroundings. I was enjoying it. It's the first fight week I've actually... Even though I was on the receiving end of all that talking, I was enjoying it. It was different New York, America, you can't get any bigger, do you know what I mean? And then to top it off the way I did, in the fashion I did, yeah, it was the icing on the cake. Could you, I mean, I got the sense at ringside, so maybe I'm putting words in your mouth, but did you sense really early that Edgar Balangas sensed he'd made a mistake? Straight away. Straight away. It was when I was looking at him across the ring. Teddy Atlas, he'd done a review after the fight and he said one thing. He goes after Hamza fought Adamus. He learned a lot in that fight and going into his next fight, even though he was fighting a big super middleweight when he got in a ring he'll look across at him and think it's nothing and that's exactly what

I thought and when I was listening to Teddy I was thinking like he knew exactly what was going through

my mind as he would because he's been around for donkeys years but that's exactly what it was

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