{"id":700225,"date":"2026-05-28T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700225\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:59:12","slug":"bbc-sports-born-to-brawl-series-features-pimblett-shields-eubank-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700225\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Sport&#8217;s Born to Brawl series features Pimblett, Shields, Eubank Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Sport has released a documentary series profiling some of boxing and MMA&#8217;s biggest names, with episodes following Paddy Pimblett, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/claressa-shields\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claressa Shields<\/a> and Chris Eubank Jr among others.<\/p>\n<p>The Born to Brawl series tracks fighters at crucial career junctures, letting them tell their stories in their own words. Shields opens up about her journey to becoming undisputed <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/middleweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">middleweight<\/a> champion, while Eubank Jr discusses growing up as the son of a British boxing legend. Pimblett&#8217;s episode covers his path to the UFC after turning down the promotion twice earlier in his career.<\/p>\n<p>British fighters dominate Born to Brawl roster<\/p>\n<p>Other episodes feature Natasha Jonas detailing her comeback to win three world titles at 37, and refugee-turned-Olympian Cindy Ngamba sharing her life in Bolton. UFC interim <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/heavyweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">heavyweight<\/a> champion Tom Aspinall reveals how he went from having \u00a320 in the bank to headlining UFC cards, per the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>The series also profiles Dennis McCann, the traveller boxer <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/tyson-fury\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson Fury<\/a> has tipped for stardom, and Savannah Marshall discussing <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/floyd-mayweather\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Floyd Mayweather<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;broken promises&#8221; ahead of her historic fight with Shields. Shannon Courtenay&#8217;s episode traces her path from addiction struggles to winning the WBA <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/division\/bantamweight\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bantamweight<\/a> title after just eight pro fights.<\/p>\n<p>All episodes are available to stream on BBC Sport now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/crgy3zy4meyo?at_medium=RSS&amp;at_campaign=rss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Sport has released a documentary series profiling some of boxing and MMA&#8217;s biggest names, with episodes following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-700225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}