The Brand New Heavies
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This is Five Live Boxing.
It's the summer, they said. There'll be no boxing, they said. And suddenly, AJ's got to fight in Jeddah. And then suddenly, Tyson Fury's got to fight in Pattaya. And they're going to fight later in the year. And then Oleksandr Usyk gives up three of his belts. Suddenly, two men instantly become world heavyweight champions. One of them's defended his title. I thought they said there'd be no boxing this lovely, glorious, hot London summer. But guess what? There's boxing everywhere. All I want to do is put a hat on and sit in the sun and just tan my fat belly. I'm Steve Bunt and this is Five Live Boxing. So there's about 74 heavyweights that we have to mention. There's about 68 stories that we have to go through.
And I have to reach out, obviously, to the number one man, the top man for sitting here. And there's no joke. I'm not going to say X and then X wasn't available. That's a tacky joke. No, the only man I could get in to do the job was a very, very slim-looking Barry Jones. In fact, we're going to go, we're going to start, first of all, with a new look.
You made it like you were looking for me and I was your only guy. Then you said, the only guy we could get...
Oh, shoot. Did I slip out that way?
You did it again, yeah.
No, but let me just tell you something. Not five years ago, Barry was sitting opposite me at four in the morning. We were doing, I don't know, a Mayweather fight or something fight from America. And suddenly I felt something hit me just above my eye. And what it was, Barry at that point was consuming an awful lot of sweets and an awful lot of junk food. And a button had popped from his waistcoat, nearly took my eye out. And I'm looking at it now. I mean, the man is... You're looking good, pal.
New training regime. No, no, I do a little bit of training, but you know what? I was eating two tonnes of ice cream a week. You were. I mean, and literally five packets of biscuits. I mean, I should be massive, but I've got really good metabolism. You should be 23 stone.
Oh, mate. And that would not be nice.
And also, I eat late at night. I mean, I'm doing the ironing. You eat the wrong time and the wrong food. I'm ironing quite often. I'm like crazy. But anyway, I just cut that out. It was really hard for about two months now. And I was still eating, but I just cut out all the crap. And now I'm starting to eat a little bit more rubbish now because I was losing too much. A bit more comfortable. Well, you stop eating all the crap, then you get all the rubbish food. Then it sort of like suppresses your appetite for normal food a little bit. And I was missing out. My meals were too big. I was like, that's too big for me.
And as Kate Moss said, nothing tastes better than thin. I don't know what that means. I'm just saying, you know, there's that sort of Kate Mossy look.
Anyway, I'm a little guy whose toes are getting too big, you know what I mean? And I've got short legs. I can't have a big waist because my legs are too short. That's the point. It's all right for you. You've got long legs.
We'll crack on. So about three or four weeks ago, we've had a really busy time with this show, putting out some fantastic and fabulous stuff. But about three weeks ago now, Oleksandr Usyk decided, and most of us thought it would happen, that he'd relinquish his three remaining... belts, championship belts, and not walk away from boxing, but take up other options. He was being forced into a fight with A, forced into a fight with B, forced into a fight with C. None of them he felt made any sense. The Rico Verhoeven rematch didn't seem to make any sense to him. Fighting Ajit Kabayel made no sense to him. I don't understand all of that. So he's walked away. We'll talk about what he might do, because that includes a possible fight with Deontay Wilder and possibly on Zufa, Dana White's new platform.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–10:02
2
Why did Oleksandr Usyk vacate his world heavyweight titles and what are his next options?
10:02–12:35
3
How will the IBF vacancy affect Filip Hrgović, Frank Sánchez and the August eliminator?
12:35–25:23
4
What happened in Murat Gassiev's WBA title upgrade and two‑week‑notice defence in Moscow?
25:23–33:42
5
Did Joe Joyce quit after his recent loss and is it the end of his career?
33:42–48:01