BBC Boxing Theme Tune 70's / 80's

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BBC Boxing Theme Tune 70's / 80's

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Anyone know the name of the music that the BBC used to introduce their boxing shows with in the 70's/80's?

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Post by bennie »

Not sure if you mean the Sportsnight theme, but several times they used a section from the song "Music" by John Miles, released in 1976.
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bbc's boxing music? i might be able to help you, how did it go?
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Post by knockout »

who cares :TU: ITVs tune was the daddy!!!!!
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Post by Tosti »

knockout wrote:who cares :TU: ITVs tune was the daddy!!!!!
My memory is fading :(

Maybe it was the ITV theme tune.

Anyone know what that was?
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the BBC had a great tune. It was a piano playing. I remember it before the McGuigan fights.
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Ezzard wrote:the BBC had a great tune. It was a piano playing. I remember it before the McGuigan fights.
Its the best Boxing intro tune of all time. It send a shiver up your spine similar to the one a fighter experiences when walking to the ring.

It starts off with a drum beat,.......... T, T, T

Ddn, Ddn, Ddn, Ddn, D, D, D........

Then goes in to a calypso type tune.

ITV's is good but the BBc one is the best.
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Post by stujones »

KO Artist wrote:
Ezzard wrote:the BBC had a great tune. It was a piano playing. I remember it before the McGuigan fights.
Its the best Boxing intro tune of all time. It send a shiver up your spine similar to the one a fighter experiences when walking to the ring.

It starts off with a drum beat,.......... T, T, T

Ddn, Ddn, Ddn, Ddn, D, D, D........

Then goes in to a calypso type tune.

ITV's is good but the BBc one is the best.
It is good, have a few McGuigan/ Dave McAuley fights with the music, but ITV's old one - that they brought back only to stop it, is the daddy.

I quite like the ITV one BEFORE their great one also.
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Post by harrygreb »

yes as a previous poster said the beebs one was probably "music" by john miles - i always hated that tune when it was in the charts
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the old bbc boxing intro music is called "sir percy" by the tony king orchestra, and what an intro it was, still never been bettered by any boxing channel in my opinion, brings back great memories from back in the day :TU:
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TITANS OF MUSIC

As good as Sir Percy is - for boxing? Not sure.

The ITV one though, I could listen on loop for the entirety of my life.
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There is only one real boxing theme tune.... duh duh duh duh duuuhhhhhh duh duh duuhhh duh duh duuuhhh duh duh duh duh duhhhhhhh duh duh duh duh duhhhhh duhhhhh
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knockout wrote: 18 May 2006, 04:37 who cares :TU: ITVs tune was the daddy!!!!!
YES!!!!!
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boxingknockout wrote: 19 Jan 2018, 19:26 There is only one real boxing theme tune.... duh duh duh duh duuuhhhhhh duh duh duuhhh duh duh duuuhhh duh duh duh duh duhhhhhhh duh duh duh duh duhhhhh duhhhhh
Love that one
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The ITV boxing theme brought as much excitement for me as when you'd see the 20th Century Fox or MGM lion clips at the start of a film.
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I always thought the theme from ITV's 'Fight Night' with Gary Newbon was brilliant.
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bigjack wrote: 19 Jan 2018, 09:42
This is the one I remember, they should bring it back for the Eubank v groves PPV intro
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