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5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

Life After Boxing

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports News, Sports

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Is enough being done to support boxers once they hang up the gloves? In this special programme, Stacey Copeland examines the realities fighters face when their careers end, from loss of identity to physical and mental challenges.

Joined by Steve Bunce, former undisputed world champion Josh Taylor and leading trainer Dom Ingle, the discussion explores whether the sport is doing enough and what more can be done to help boxers prepare for life out of the ring. They also hear from Ricky Hatton's friend and manager, Paul Speak, Robert Smith of the BBBoC, and Queensberry boss Frank Warren.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.

0:05.7

Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked.

0:12.7

But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes,

0:18.2

The Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylan, and Comedy Specials

0:22.2

from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffle and Rommashranganathan. However, and maybe I'm biased,

0:27.9

it's really all about the traitors uncoaked. So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts,

0:33.4

listen only on BBC Sounds. This is Five Live Boxing.

0:40.2

Over the next hour, we're going to be talking about life after boxing.

0:44.9

Now, for anybody who's made that walk to the ring,

0:48.7

they'll know all about that rush of adrenaline,

0:51.0

it sears through your veins, the roar of the crowd,

0:53.6

and you feel invincible

0:54.5

as you prepare to dance, as they say, under the lights. And that is a pretty addictive

0:59.5

feeling. To make that ringwalk in front of a packed-out arena or stadium, though,

1:03.7

there's really nothing that compares, there's nothing quite like it. But what about when

1:08.0

that final bell rings? No more big nights under the lights, no more

1:12.6

raw of the crowd. It's then that boxers face that really tough question of who am I without

1:19.9

boxing. And that's what we'll be delving into this evening. After all the glory, when it's all over,

1:25.7

what then? Joining me to do that in the studio is former undisputed light, well-to-weight world champion

1:31.1

Josh Taylor, who hung up the gloves last year through injury.

1:35.0

Lovely to have you with us.

1:35.8

World Championship trainer who guided Kelbrook, of course, to a world title Dominic Ingle.

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