Kelly becomes champion as Big Baby loses his lid
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Has there ever been a stranger moment in the ring than Jarrell Miller losing his toupee mid-fight? Stacey Copeland joins Buncey to unpack that bizarre scene, as well as the impressive performances from Josh Kelly and Shakur Stevenson. Kelly claimed his first world title with victory over Bakhram Murtazaliev, while Stevenson made history by becoming a four-weight world champion. Plus, Stacey gives her verdict on Fran Hennessy’s narrow win at the Copper Box.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | This is Five Live Boxing. |
| 0:10.0 | So a masterclass in a one-sided fight in New York, |
| 0:14.0 | and drama and fairy tales in a brilliant world title fight in Newcastle, |
| 0:19.0 | and Fran Hennessy winning a real fight in East London. |
| 0:22.1 | That was a weekend and by the way a flying toupee. Yes, I said a flying toupee. I'm Steve Bunce and this |
| 0:29.6 | is Five Live Boxing. So I'm joined by Stacey Copeland. Now Stacey, you and I were opposite ends of the world, or the British boxing world, on Saturday night. |
| 0:43.0 | And you were at some fun fights, and I was at a fantastic night in Newcastle, but let's get it right. |
| 0:48.1 | The only thing we're really bothered about this weekend is the flying toupee. |
| 0:52.7 | Jarrell Big Baby Miller had a disaster, stuck a toupee on, bit of super glue, whacked off in the third round, threw it outside the ring and was then caught so I'm told by Fabio Wardley who passed it to Sky Nicholson who good sport this year and former WBC February champion stuck it on her barnet. That's where the pod should end and start, to be honest with you, Stacey. |
| 1:14.2 | It was absolutely hilarious and I've seen a video since |
| 1:17.5 | of Big Baby Miller driving down some road in a convertible car |
| 1:22.3 | with the hairpiece flapping. |
| 1:24.9 | It's just absolutely brilliant, isn't it? |
| 1:26.8 | I mean, that's one of those moments in boxing that's going to last a long time, I think. But you know what? Fair play to him, because he's taking it in real good spirit. And he said afterwards, you can't laugh at yourself, then there's something wrong. And yeah, fair play. And it does have a good sense of humour, as he says, I think as he said in interviews, I'm a comedian. The one thing that really struck me, to be perfectly honest with you, was the first thing I |
| 1:47.2 | thought, and I don't want to be called, you know, a crybaby, a sports boy here, but I thought it might have all been, it might have all been staged by him. You know, I can't remember his hair. I didn't think he had a lot of hair, but hey-ho. |
| 1:57.4 | You know, he had that circle like Frya Tuck. |
| 2:00.0 | He said they'd been to his mum's in the week |
| 2:01.8 | and used some ammonia shampoo by accident. |
| 2:04.5 | Yeah, and... hey-ho, you know, he had that circle like Frye a tuck. Well, he said they'd been to his mum's in the week and used some ammonia shampoo by accident. |
| 2:04.5 | Yeah, and it pulled it off. So he had to get one last minute. So I looked him up on the internet, as they say in your neck of the woods. 699 to 547 quid. |
| 2:15.3 | I didn't have enough time |
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