Itauma beats up Franklin
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Did Moses Itauma confirm he’s heavyweight boxing’s next big thing? Buncey and Richie Woodhall discuss the 21-year-old’s knockout win over Jermaine Franklin. Is he ready for a world title shot? We hear from Itauma, his manager Francis Warren and his promoter Frank Warren.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, I've just nipped in before your BBC podcast starts to tell you all about |
| 0:09.4 | You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Also from the BBC |
| 0:13.9 | and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning. Sorry. |
| 0:17.9 | Anyway, like many other BBC podcasts, such as Desert Island Discs, Evil Genius, or In Our Time, your dead to me is available first on BBC Sounds, |
| 0:26.3 | a whole month earlier than anywhere else, in fact. So if you can't wait another day to hear the very |
| 0:31.6 | latest in history and loads of other good stuff, then listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:38.3 | This is Five Live Boxing. |
| 0:41.1 | It was always going to be a test for Moses Atama. |
| 0:43.3 | Most of us expected him to win. |
| 0:45.5 | But the way he won, the way he dropped Jermaine Franklin face first in round five, |
| 0:52.0 | was both savage and satisfying. |
| 0:55.0 | Moses Atama might just be the biggest thing in world boxing right now. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm Steve Bunce and this is Five Live Boxing. |
| 1:10.0 | So it was 17,18,000 people inside the co-op live, a venue where some of the biggest names |
| 1:17.9 | in music have played and some of the biggest personalities in spool have appeared. |
| 1:24.2 | And Moseratauma, at just 21 years of age, rocked the place. |
| 1:28.5 | And that's not a cliche. |
| 1:29.5 | He generally rocked the place. |
| 1:31.1 | I'm trying to be calm as I'm trying to remember what happened less than 20 odd minutes ago. |
| 1:37.1 | He won in the fifth round, one minute and 33 seconds of the fifth, to knock out a man who'd never been dropped before. |
| 1:49.0 | Dispatched him with an incredible left upper cut, perfect left uppercut. |
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