Boxing
Let’s Talk Sport LIVE – Cadogan Hall
Date: 15th April 2012
Time: 7pm
Venue: Cadogan Hall, London
Tickets: £22.50 (£15 concession)
Box office: 020 7730 4500
Join sporting celebrities for an entertaining evening of insight, lively debate and behind-the-scenes sporting knowledge and throw your own questions into the ring. Hosted by award-winning journalist and author Mihir Bose, the BBC’s first Sports Editor and known for his major scoops, Let’s Talk Sport LIVE lifts the lid on sporting issues, scandals and controversies in this, the Olympic year.
Special guests:
John Motson OBE
Football
TV and radio commentator for over 40 years and the voice of British sport for so many people.
Barry Hearn
Snooker, Football, Boxing, Darts
Distinguished promoter, manager, chairman and sportsman – his insider knowledge and passion for sport is unsurpassed.
Robert Elms Show
With Jason Solomons, Michael Smiley, Mihir Bose, ‘Cover To Cover’ and Seal.
The Robert Elms show is a celebration of every aspect of London.
Three hours a day, revel in the stories and characters, memories and aspirations which make London such a great place to live and work.
Art, architecture, history, movies, shopping, drinking and dining all carried out to a soundtrack of music for grown ups.
The Robert Elms Show is tailor-made for you, dear Londoner.
Click here to listen to the programme (Note: Section with Mihir starts at 1:36:40. This programme will only be available until the 26th January)
Audley Harrison: Get ready for the greatest comeback
London Evening Standard
There is not much that unites Audley Harrison and David Haye, except a common loathing. The pair’s verbal jousting before their WBA heavyweight world title fight has gone to such lengths that Haye has said it will be as “one-sided as a gang rape”.
But there is one thing the two men will share as they step into the MEN Arena on 13 November — both will have given up sex for several weeks in preparation for this fight.
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The Big Interview: Frank Warren
The Evening Standard
It is not easy to put Frank Warren down. Many, including a hit man, the tax man and several boxers he has promoted have tried, but all have failed.
Warren can be so protective of what people say that when the Daily Mirror got one fact wrong in a largely complimentary article he sued and was paid a reported £10,000 in damages.
He liked the piece and the writer but objected to the allegation that he was raised in the “gutter”.
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The Big Interview: David Haye confident that he will slay Goliath
The Evening Standard
David Haye does not do PC. But that is not the only way he sets himself apart from many of his boxing contemporaries.
He has his own promotion company and for six weeks before a fight there are other things he does not do: no sex and no use of his own name when checking into hotels.
This is only a sample of what makes him distinctive and why his belief that by 2011 he will be the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world should not be dismissed out of hand.
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