{"podcast":{"title":"5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce","slug":"5-live-boxing-with-steve-bunce-222385","podcast_index_feed_id":222385,"rss_url":"https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p0npnjst.rss","website_url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0npnjst","image_url":"http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0lwzdks.jpg","author":"BBC","episode_count":180,"summary":"Discussion, analysis and the latest news from big fight nights and the world of boxing, featuring special guests. New episodes every Monday, get in touch with the pod via 5 Live Sport on social media and remember to share your ratings and reviews.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-09T14:23:24.417597+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/5-live-boxing-with-steve-bunce-222385"},"episode":{"title":"The Boxing Board Ep. 1 | Who Sits at the Top of the Heavyweight Tree?","slug":"the-boxing-board-ep-1-who-sits-at-the-top-of-the-heavyweight-tree","published_at":"2026-08-26T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/5-live-boxing-with-steve-bunce-222385/the-boxing-board-ep-1-who-sits-at-the-top-of-the-heavyweight-tree","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/5-live-boxing-with-steve-bunce-222385","url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0p68b14","audio_url":"http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0p689g4.mp3","summary":"Who sits at the top of boxing’s heavyweight tree, not just today but across every era? Chairman Ade Oladipo is joined by boxing trainer and online sensation Frank Gilfeather, alongside rising heavyweight star Johnny Fisher, for a no-holds-barred meeting of The Boxing Board. The panel tackles the current crop of giants and a tantalising fantasy fight: how would Oleksandr Usyk fare against Lennox Lewis? Johnny reveals which former heavyweight champion would give him the biggest fright when the bell rings, while Frank draws on his encyclopaedic knowledge to share the remarkable and hilarious tale of Sonny Liston’s visit to a Paisley housing estate. Then the board looks back to the radio era, debating who was king when boxing captured the nation’s imagination, and whether the sport has lost some of that meaning today. After all the arguments, memories and bold claims, only one question remains: who does the board place at the summit of heavyweight history?","meta_description":"Who sits at the top of boxing’s heavyweight tree, not just today but across every era? Chairman Ade Oladipo is joined by boxing trainer and online sensati…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2627,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/5-live-boxing-with-steve-bunce-222385/episodes/the-boxing-board-ep-1-who-sits-at-the-top-of-the-heavyweight-tree/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/5-live-boxing-with-steve-bunce-222385/the-boxing-board-ep-1-who-sits-at-the-top-of-the-heavyweight-tree.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}