The man who shot Muhammad Ali
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Legendary photographer Neil Leifer, who captured some of the most iconic images of Muhammad Ali in a career spanning half a century, joins Mike and Steve to tell the story behind some of his most famous work. Also, reaction to the confirmation of the date of boxing's return in the UK.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Five-live boxing. |
| 0:06.2 | Five-live boxing with Costello and Bands and thanks for sticking with us. |
| 0:15.3 | This is our 14th show in lockdown and that's not counting the greatest fight series. |
| 0:20.5 | And finally, Steve, we have a date as to when professional boxing is to return to the |
| 0:25.7 | UK. |
| 0:26.7 | One date solid, set in stone, so they say. |
| 0:29.8 | That's the 10th of July, so Friday. |
| 0:31.8 | But we've also got about another six or seven shows, about eight or nine fights. |
| 0:36.0 | We're back, we're nearly out of lockdown. |
| 0:41.6 | Do you remember how the start of this 14 weeks ago? |
| 0:44.3 | It was all going to happen in two weeks. |
| 0:45.8 | Do you remember it happened in nine weeks? |
| 0:47.7 | Well now it's all going to happen in two weeks. |
| 0:49.3 | It'll probably happen in nine weeks. |
| 0:51.0 | We're back one day, one fight so far, but another five or six shows. |
| 0:55.5 | So find dates, they've got fights. |
| 0:57.5 | We're back. |
| 0:58.5 | Hey, in that other world, Steve, that parallel universe, the old normal we today would have |
| 1:03.1 | been assessing Antony Joshua's performance against Kubrick Pulae, and according to Bob |
| 1:07.3 | Arum, we'd have been assessing Antony Joshua's defeat against the Bulgarian. |
| 1:11.8 | We would have actually recorded Bob Arum somewhere in the bowels of that brand new Tottenham |
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