Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Sports Agents...
Britain's biggest boxing promoters Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren made a rare appearance together. How is it being partners after 15 years of rivalry? Could boxing gyms help with issues raised in 'Adolescence'? And could Anthony Joshua fight influencer Jake Paul? (02:15)
Leaving your boyhood club in search of a Ballon D'Or - is Trent Alexander-Arnold a traitor or should we admire his ambition? Spanish football journalist Guillem Balague and John Gibbons from The Anfield Wrap debate it out. (12:30)
And we all love jeopardy in sport but has the Brisbane 2032 Olympics taken it a bit too far... did someone say crocodiles?! (20:30)
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| 0:32.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:35.9 | We were kind of forced together and quite enjoyed it. |
| 0:40.0 | Tell the truth, it was tin direction. |
| 0:44.4 | It does my head and effectively a magazine was just looking for something to write about |
| 0:48.5 | and decided to come up with an award. |
| 0:50.2 | We could all do that and then now suddenly it's more important than league titles. |
| 0:55.4 | Maybe sticking a crocodile in a river is part of marginal gains. |
| 1:03.2 | Hi, Mark. |
| 1:04.1 | Hi, Gabby. |
| 1:04.9 | Welcome to another weekend edition of the sports agents where you can catch up on our |
| 1:08.5 | favourite bits from this week's podcast. |
| 1:10.6 | Plenty going on, as ever, as we always say, every week when we bring you this best bits. |
| 1:15.9 | We had Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren together in the studio. They're not often together. |
| 1:22.4 | They've been sworn enemies for many years, but they've come together now because of the money |
| 1:26.6 | in boxing provided by Saudi Arabia. But actually, the chat was much more than that. Well, I really, really enjoyed it with the two of them. Yeah, it was great. It was a bit like having the rat pack back together. That's what it felt like, you know, it's like two of the great crooners of the sport, singing beautifully from the same hymn sheet in the studio. |
| 1:44.6 | Could I crowbar any more metaphors into there? But it was great. We talked about all sorts of |
| 1:49.2 | things, societal issues as well as the kind of machinations of a new boxing league. |
| 1:53.4 | Then we had Guillain Balagay and John Gibbons with us. John's from the Anfield rap. And it was all |
| 1:58.4 | about Trent Alexander Arnold and leaving Liverpool to go to |
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