Mike Tyson

Eddie Hearn: No Passion, No Point

BBC

Sports, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

One of the World’s best-known sports promoters Eddie Hearn chats to some of the biggest names in sport, entertainment and business. This series includes in-depth interviews with Gary Lineker, Dina Asher Smith and Virgil Van Dijk. Eddie learns about their passions, what gets them up in the morning, and how they dealt with the world grinding to halt this year.

This week, Eddie is talking to one of the biggest names in sport, Mike Tyson. In the build-up to his fight with Roy Jones Jr, Mike Tyson takes time out of his busy schedule to talk to Eddie about the highs and lows of his career, shares his thoughts on the heavyweight divisions biggest names, and how it feels to be on the comeback trail aged 54.

Eddie also talks about the importance of boxing to the local community and the younger generation, and how Covid-19 has threatened the existence of the sport at grassroots level.

No Passion, No Point is produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies, and is a BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 5 Live. Listen now on BBC Sounds.

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0:39.0	Anthony Joshua defending his heavyweight world titles against Kubrat Pulev exclusively on BBC Radio 5 Live
0:46.6	on the night of December 12th.
0:48.6	Join the best in the business, Mike Costello and Steve Bunce for the big fight.
0:53.4	You can listen for free on the BBC Sounds app.
0:56.0	My name's Eddie Hearn and this is No Passion, No Point.
1:05.0	Eddie Hearn, No Passion, No Point, BBC Sounds, BBC Five Live, any other BBC they want to
1:11.0	attach me to, it's a privilege and an honor I can't believe we're up to
1:14.9	episode 8 already to be honest with you the guests have been brilliant I can't
1:19.3	believe some of them are actually taking the time to sit down with me shut must have
1:22.3	been bored in lockdown to be honest with you,
1:24.4	but Virgil Van Dyck, Christian Horner,
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