Steve Bunce

London

Host at 5 live Boxing with Costello & Bunce

BBC 5 Live Boxing Pod; The Big Fat Short History of British Boxing; Independent since 1998, C5, Boxing News, Heavyweight History at Yahoo, TNT Team.

Articles

Fisher vs Allen 2 is the perfect appetiser for a supreme heavyweight summer

1 day ago | msn.com | Steve Bunce

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Fisher vs Allen 2 is the perfect appetiser for a supreme heavyweight summer

1 day ago | independent.co.uk | Steve Bunce

The much-anticipated rematch will give way to a Fabio Wardley stadium fight, Usyk vs Dubois 2 at Wembley, and the returns of Anthony Joshua and... Tyson FurySteve BunceThe “Bosh Army” will pack the Copper Box on Saturday for an old-fashioned British heavyweight fight when their idol, Johnny Fisher, fights Dave Allen.
Manchester Trainer Joe Gallagher Has His Roots In Boxing

1 day ago | boxingnewsonline.net | Steve Bunce

PHIL MARTIN had his back to a mirror working with a kid the first time that Joe Gallagher walked through the doors at Champs Camp. It was a Sunday morning and Gallagher wanted to be a champion and that is why he climbed the stairs and opened the door at that gym, on that morning. Trust me, getting to the door was not an easy passage, especially in 1987. Gallagher was just 17, desperate to be a better fighter and a new start inside the Moss Side gym was his solution.
Boxing’s big weekend falls flat - but Canelo vs Crawford can inject new energy

1 week ago | independent.co.uk | Steve Bunce

Three days of action in New York, Riyadh and Las Vegas failed to capture the imagination, Steve Bunce explains, but the meeting between two fine fighters in September promises to be unmissableSaul Canelo Alvarez and some of the world’s finest boxers failed to deliver a decent round of action in four fights, during two nights in two cities over the long weekend.
Johnny Owen’s Tragic Death Should Not Be Forgotten

1 week ago | boxingnewsonline.net | Steve Bunce

“IT is his tragedy that he found himself articulate in such a dangerous language.” – Hughie McIlvanney. We all know the famous words, the final punch and the awful death of Johnny Owen, the Matchstick Man from Merthyr Tydfil. It was that wild night at the Olympic Auditorium in the part of Los Angeles known as Little Mexico, and the man breaking our hearts was Lupe Pintor.
Steve Bunce: Chris Eubank Jr deserved the decision but there were no losers after epic battle with Conor Benn

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Steve Bunce

Steve Bunce: Chris Eubank Jr deserved the decision but there were no losers after epic battle with Conor BennChris Eubank Jr (centre) celebrates with Chris Eubank Sr (centre right) after winning his middleweight bout against Conor Benn at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Photo credit: Bradley Collyer/PA Wire. In the end, the sons walked heavily in the footsteps of their heroic fathers during a night of raw emotion at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Why Conor Benn didn’t lose his epic fight with Chris Eubank Jr

2 weeks ago | independent.co.uk | Steve Bunce

The long-time adversaries pushed each other to boxing’s harshest places, to places well outside the normal limits of sacrifice and pain, on a famous night in LondonSteve BunceIn the end, the sons walked heavily in the footsteps of their heroic fathers during a night of raw emotion at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn had promised many things during the years and weeks before the first bell; they then went out and delivered on every single promise.
‘I detest him, but I respect him’ - How Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank’s fierce rivalry changed boxing

2 weeks ago | independent.ie | Steve Bunce

‘I detest him, but I respect him’ – How Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank’s fierce rivalry changed boxingNigel Benn throws a punch at Chris Eubank during their super-middleweight bout at Old Trafford back in 1993Nigel Benn never took his eyes off Chris Eubank the first time they met in a boxing ring in 1990. It was a Sunday night at the NEC on the outskirts of Birmingham and British boxing would never be the same again.
‘I detest him, but I respect him’ - How Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank’s fierce rivalry changed boxing

2 weeks ago | m.independent.ie | Steve Bunce
When George Foreman Bowed Out For The Second And Final Time

2 weeks ago | boxingnewsonline.net | Steve Bunce

THERE is a morbid fascination with the end of a great boxer’s career, the last night in the ring and the inevitable defeat. It would make a good study, a decent book and even better if the writer was present, and a personal witness to the final wonder of a great boxer finishing his career. I’m a big believer in being there, watching from ringside, grabbing a minute after midnight with the broken loser.