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5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

Usyk v Verhoeven: Eddie Hearn's Take

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports News, Sports

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

What kind of challenge will Rico Verhoeven pose to Oleksandr Usyk? That’s just one of the questions Buncey puts to Eddie Hearn as they sit down ahead of Saturday night’s fight. We hear from both fighters on what they’re expecting in the ring, while four-time Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen gives an insight into his fellow Dutchman and close friend.

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0:54.4

This is Five Live boxing Listen only on BBC Sound. This is Five Live Boxing. On the ground finally in Cairo, it's a special fight week. And the pyramids, they're everywhere. And they take your breath away. You're in a taxi, you turn a corner. Bosch, three big pyramids. You're sitting down to have some lunch by the pool. You look over your shoulder. Bosch, there's some pyramids. You're on your balcony having a little snooze and a reed.

0:58.4

There they are. The giant pyramids. They are very special. And we've got two kings of the ring.

1:03.7

Rico Verhoeven, the king of kickboxing. Alexander Usik, the king of traditional boxing.

1:09.3

We'll hear from both of them and a special guest at the end of this particular pod.

1:13.6

But I start as his tradition when it's five weeks with the promoter.

1:17.1

Eddie Hearn sits down with me.

1:18.9

We drink coffee and we talk about promoting in Egypt and the fight.

1:23.1

I'm Steve Bunn's and this is Five Live Boxing.

1:30.1

Eddie, we've been in some fine locations.

1:32.4

We've been in some horrible locations.

1:34.6

I'm trying to think if we've ever had a better backdrop than we're going to have on

1:38.9

Saturday night when the moon's up there, a crescent moon, the neon, the pyramids lit and two men walk into the ring.

1:46.3

It's not bad, is it?

1:47.4

I think people are actually not realising the spectacle that you're about to see on Saturday.

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