Who is boxing's Tiger?
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
As Mike and Steve arrive in a chilly New York ahead of Terence Crawford v Amir Khan for the WBO weltweight title, is there anyone currently in the sport of boxing that can inspire the same universal excitement as Tiger Woods in his Masters victory? Also, an early look at why Crawford v Khan might not be the mismatch expected by some bookmakers, and a review of Anthony Crolla's lopsided four round defeat by Vasyl Lomachenko at the weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.4 | 5 Live Boxing |
| 0:06.4 | And welcome to 5 Live Boxing with Costello and Bunts coming to you as promised from New York |
| 0:17.7 | City. New York City Steve Orr is it the Arctic Circle? |
| 0:21.2 | Well it's not quite the Arctic Circle, bear in mind might be in your absence when you |
| 0:24.8 | were sunning in 10 years. |
| 0:26.1 | So if I actually went in a cryo tank, I was 146, that's minus 146, I was in. |
| 0:31.5 | This is slightly warmer than that, only slightly warmer than that. |
| 0:35.1 | And what it is, is because of the buildings, every single building generates whips the |
| 0:40.7 | cold, whips the wind, it's freezing cold. |
| 0:43.6 | I can hear that sympathy flooding in from listeners all around. |
| 0:49.1 | Look we had loads of emails about our requests for you to suggest locations as to where we |
| 0:55.3 | should record our first podcast of the week. |
| 0:58.6 | I suppose we ought to mention that the reason we're here is Amir Khan against Terram's |
| 1:02.0 | Crawford for the WBO World to Eight title live on BBC 5 live in the early hours of Sunday |
| 1:08.5 | morning we're here for the build up this week. |
| 1:11.5 | And as I say we had many a suggestion as to where we should record this first podcast from |
| 1:16.1 | Richard in Beckinham continuing your theme Steve about last week. |
| 1:20.6 | He says, got to be the top of the Empire State Building. |
| 1:23.2 | Steve is used to the cold going on last week's pod. |
| 1:27.2 | One of you can be Faye Ray and the other King Kong not saying who. |
| 1:32.1 | Matt Collins in Melbourne, springtime in the Big Apple perhaps you guys could huddle up |
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