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Ben Shalom

πŸ‘€ Speaker
330 total appearances

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5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

Dave Allen got offered to fight him.

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

No one wanted to fight Jamie TKB because he's a phenomenal, he really is a phenomenal fighter and he can cause you problems.

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

Richard Riakpour, I think from about the second or third round,

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

couple of jabs in I think I spoke to Jamie and his team he'd never felt power like that and he's been in with a lot and maybe on another night had he had a different who knows Richard Rappaport's power is quite scary I don't think people should overlook just how impressive that win was I thought that was a really good win and we'd had two fights with him at heavyweight and he blasted away his opponents and it was almost like right this is your real test Richard are you a real heavyweight

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

And he sort of passed it with flying covers.

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

I think it's opened his eyes to saying, you know what?

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

Bingo.

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

I might be as good as people have said also I'm going to be a serious problem in the heavyweight division because I can think of very few fighters that I'd be confident about being richer he's taken pretty much no damage in his career he eats well he trains well he lives well he looks phenomenal he's put on a huge amount of weight and he's got power in both hands and he's a very good boxer he's a very good boxer and so yeah he's going to be a huge force I think we have a

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

a new big addition to the world heavyweight scene.

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

I do.

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

He's boxing on May the 9th.

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

It's our first show in Holland on Videoland.

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

He's selling out arenas already for us there.

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

He boxed on the BBC show with Fran Hennessy and blew away Boris Crichton.

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

And I've had Boris on shows plenty of times.

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

He's a tough boy.

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

He boxed Southpaw just to try out Southpaw, which many fighters can't do.

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

But no, I just think he'll be a huge problem in the light heavyweight division.

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

I don't think I've ever had a more talented fighter.

5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
In Conversation with Ben Shalom

Wow.