Usyk v Verhoeven: Fight Night Review
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Should Rico Verhoeven feel hard done by? Richie Woodhall joins Buncey to dissect a dramatic night in the desert as Oleksandr Usyk controversially stopped the Dutchman in the 11th round. We hear from Verhoeven himself, as well as his trainer Peter Fury, after a fight that’s already sparked huge debate.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Experience football like never before on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:09.5 | Join the Football Daily podcast to dive into the fallout |
| 0:12.2 | from an unforgettable Premier League season. |
| 0:14.6 | Wow, these fans have got absolutely wild. |
| 0:18.1 | And all the build-up to an incredible football summer to come. |
| 0:21.7 | Overhead King! |
| 0:23.6 | That is sensational! |
| 0:28.3 | Expert Insights and the biggest names in the game on the Wayne Rooney show. |
| 0:32.2 | Just coming to the club was already a dream control, a privilege, never saw or dreamed about being the captain of the club. |
| 0:33.8 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:40.5 | This is five live boxing. We came for the pyramids, we stayed for the camels |
| 0:43.1 | And you know what, let's stay for the fight |
| 0:44.9 | Rick O'Hovan, the greatest kickboxer of his generation |
| 0:48.0 | Against Alexander Usik, not just the greatest box of his generation |
| 0:52.1 | But one of the greatest boxers ever. |
| 0:55.0 | It was meant to be a mismatch. It was meant to be a walkover. |
| 0:58.0 | But Alexander Usik won with one second left in the 11th round. |
| 1:02.0 | Was he lucky? Not necessarily lucky, but it was the fight of his life. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Steve Bunce and this is five live boxing. |
| 1:10.0 | And at 3.26 in the morning, his life. I'm Steve Bunce and this is Five Live Boxing. |
| 1:17.8 | And at 3.26 in the morning after a night like that in the shadow of those three illuminated giant pyramids, this has to be the ideal place to talk about what we watched in |
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