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THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY

THIS is a story of death and Donald Trump, of fear and loathing and of the failure so often in the boxing game to make fights happen.

It is the story of fights that came close to being made, fights that were mentioned, fights that were made, fights that were discussed and then vanished. Some left a trail, some are hard to trace. Some sound invented.

Some of the fights did eventually take place, but the venue, the year and the circumstances often changed drastically. Mixed in with some of the fanciful pairings, there are the more mundane, the

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