BBC London 94.9 Boxing Special

Just sat and watched the fight on YouTube. Looked like an amazing fight and an even better atmosphere. Any chance of asking them about what they think about the hyped up rivalries in the modern day (Groves-Degale, Haye-Harrison) compared to their's back in the day? Also can anybody answer the question why Big Fights used to be on midweek instead of at the weekend and why they moved to the weekend?

 

BBC Sportsnight was on a weds evening its probably as simple as that.

 

They changed it to the weekends for the gate, which became more important as financial demands started rising and especially as satelite TV came in. It wasn't just over here the likes of Leonard vs. Hearns were on weekdays.

 

Thanks for the replies. Im only 22 so I only remember fights either being on a friday or saturday night so I was curious as to why this wasnt so in the past.

 

Your audio man's having a shocker.

 

pity the audio files messed up for buncey...he's obviously trying to make a good piece here.

 

im trying to find it on iplayer..just the rugby..

link me

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/

 

thansk tams

 

"my big black door guys" ...*giggles*

 

That points and rankings experiment was interesting, which UK fighters did you include to get the 9points?

 

Great show tonight Buncy. Good to see that Christie and Kaylor had so much respect for each other.

 

Is this available as a podcast through itunes? If so, I'd appreciate if someone could send me a link or what to type into the search engine because all I can find on itunes is the old Setanta boxing hour podcast. Cheers.