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  • Bunce's Big Fat Short History of British Boxing

  • By: Steve Bunce
  • Narrated by: Steve Bunce
  • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (111 ratings)

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Bunce's Big Fat Short History of British Boxing

By: Steve Bunce
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Fully revised and updated with three new chapters.

Boxing is Steve Bunce's game. He has filed thousands and thousands of fight reports from ringside. He has written millions and millions of words for national newspapers previewing boxing, profiling boxers and proselytising on the business. He has been the voice of British boxing on the airwaves, both radio and television, with an army of loyal fans. And now it's time to put those many years of experience into penning his history of the sport of kings on these isles. It's Bunce's Big Fat Short History of British Boxing.

Starting in 1970, the beginning of modern boxing in Britain, Bunce takes us from Joe Bugner beating Henry Cooper to an explosion then in the sport's exposure to the wider British public, with 22 million watching Barry McGuigan win his world title on the BBC. All boxing royalty is here - Frank Bruno taking on Mike Tyson in Las Vegas; Benn, Watson, Eubank and Naseem; Ricky Hatton, Lennox Lewis and Calzaghe; Froch and Haye - through to a modern-day situation where with fighters as diverse as Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, we have more world champions than ever before. And besides the fighters, there are the fixers, the managers, the trainers, the duckers and divers....

Bunce's Big Fat Short History of British Boxing has every high and impossible low, tragic deaths and fairy tales. It is a record of British boxing, British boxing people and 50 years of glory, heartache and drama.

©2021 Steve Bunce (P)2021 Penguin Audio
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What a knockout

Been a boxing fan since early 2000’s.

First saw the book but then realised there was a audio version so went for that. I’ve always been interested on other fighters i had heard about from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s like Ken Buchanan, Jim watt, herol Graham, Lloyd honegan, minter etc so to hear about what type of careers these men had made for a great listen.

Steve mentions about fighters I’d never heard of winning British titles and boxers struggling to get selected for the olympics. But most importantly for me Steve discusses the boxers who have sadly passed away either shortly after a fight or with struggles outside the ring which makes this book special.


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Bunce is the man

The year by year format and Bunce's delivery make this a must for boxing fans. Never got interested in Boxing until the late 80s so the early stuff was really interesting albeit some tragic stories. At 17hr its also great value for money

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Very good book , would recommend

Excellent book, full of interesting information and good inside knowledge

bunce accent is a bit annoying but he knows his stuff

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Very entertaining and informative

Steve bounce obviously knows his stuff he gives a detailed review of the last 30 years a must listen for any boxing fan! If there was anything on the downside it would be that at times it seemed a little rushed whilst narrating, there wasn’t much of a gap left in between fighters

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Best boxing book I’ve listened to ever

The book or audio was read with passion and panache by Bunce a thorough history of the game from a man who’s are slept and lived Boxing 🥊

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Very informative and interesting.

Steve Bunce knows his stuff and tells you all the facts about the history, certain things I didn’t know. I could not put this down.

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Outstanding. A great read for all boxing fans

So many forgotten fights came back to me whilst reading this. It was great to be remembered of boxers from decades ago and hear anecdotes from the encyclopedia of boxing in Britain

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Great overview and insight

This is a great listen. Full of detailed and intriguing snippets from the boxing world.

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Love Boxing You'll Love This

I did really enjoy this but it is also a very long listen and some of the fights are a little obscure and uninteresting. It was great to relive some of the classic meetings plus Steve Bunces very accurate and interesting comments on the more recent epic clashes in boxing Hall of fame.

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A good and basic

Worth the listen one of the better books on boxing out there. Bunches has always seemed like a straight up guy.

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