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Steve Bunce, nicknamed "Buncey", is a Britishfreelance television and radio sportpundit and newspaper columnist.
He has regularly appeared as a pundit on theBBC sports programmeInside Sport and onBBC Radio Five Live'sFighting Talk. Bunce was the face of boxing onSetanta Sports and headlined his own show,Steve Bunce's Boxing Hour, until June 2009 when the organisation ceased broadcasting in Britain. Despite calls for the popular boxing show to reappear, it failed to materialise until the introduction of Britain's first dedicated boxing channelBoxNation. Once again Bunce became the face of boxing on BoxNation, and the long-awaited return ofBunce's Boxing Hour started broadcasting 17 October 2011.
He has a regular column in the magazineBoxing Monthly.
In 2010, he published his debut work of fictionThe Fixer.[1]
He currently presents theESPN UK version of the American sports talk showPardon the Interruption.
Bunce regularly appears onBBC Radio 5 Live'sFighting Talk[2] and theSteve Bunce Boxing Show onBBC Radio London.[3] Bunce won the FT Champion of Champions final on 19 May 2012, defeatingMartin Kelner,Dougie Anderson, andGreg Brady in the process.
Born inCamden Town, Bunce currently resides in the North of England with his wife, a formerMidlands lacrosse captain, and two children. Apart from sport media, Bunce has been a supporter of fire safety since 2010 because of an incident in his teenage years when his home was set alight because of a carelessly extinguished cigarette in an ashtray. The phrase "put it out, right out" has since become a part of Bunce's intro onFighting Talk.
Bunce's eldest son, as of 2013, attendedDenstone College and plays in itsrugby union first XV squad. The elder Bunce was involved in an incident during theDaily Mail Schools rugby tournament when aNorthampton School for Boys player called him "a stupid tit" and then allegedly spat on his wife.[4][5] However, the Northants school headmaster Rod Goldswain spoke withBBC Radio 5 Live and while he was able to confirm the first part of Bunce's story, he went on to say that the player in question actually spat on the ground and not on Mrs. Bunce, and that said student was given a "dressing down" as a result. Goldswain later apologised for these remarks; Bunce, after generating a minor controversy, admitted that this was "a private matter" that shouldn't have been aired on the 5 January 2013 episode ofFighting Talk and that he should have written to the school about the incident.[6]
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