What to expect from 2026 (Men)

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce

BBC

Sports, Sports News

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

After everything we saw in 2025, can 2026 possibly match it? Barry Jones joins Buncey to look ahead to a busy year in boxing. They talk through the fights already on the books, the ones that still need to be made, and work their way through the weight divisions to pick out the match-ups they most want to see.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.5	It's like going into an ice path with your hands as the ice.
0:10.8	In 2025, we were here for the entertainment.
0:13.8	Ellis and John.
0:14.9	Have you not considered just coffee, which is what I do?
0:17.6	Sightracked with Annie and Nick.
0:19.4	Stevie Wonder, welcome. I'm pleasure. Loyal Carnar is with us. We want to hearract with Annie and Nick. Stevie Wonder, welcome.
0:21.3	My pleasure.
0:22.2	Loyal Carnar is with us.
0:23.3	Want to hear all about Glassonbury.
0:24.5	And Celebrity Traitors Uncloaked.
0:27.1	Welcome to Uncloaked, Ireland.
0:28.8	Oh, thanks for having me, Ed.
0:30.5	The winner.
0:31.2	I know, still hasn't sunk in.
0:32.8	Get the best of 2025 with podcasts on BBC Sounds.
0:39.8	This is Five Live Boxing.
0:42.7	In the boxing world, the sun and the fun finished a few days before New Year's Eve.
0:47.9	There was a car crash outside Lagos.
0:50.8	Two of Anthony Joshua's team died in the crash, and Anthony Joshua was in hospital for a couple of days
0:55.9	But you know what?
0:58.1	We still have a preview to do
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