Boxing champion and rising star Isaac Dogboe downplays royal lineage: 'I'm just my father's son'
by Lance Pugmire, Los Angeles Times
Aug 25, 2018
3 minutes
As a resident of England, Isaac Dogboe understands membership in a royal family brings to mind images of tea, rules of etiquette and a refined existence.
Dogboe's royal ties to the king of Ghana's Anlo state are far less delicate, which has served the new super-bantamweight boxing champion well.
"My people are warriors of the land. My great-grandfather was in World War II. But there are no more wars to be fought," Dogboe said. "So now I channel that ancestry - that fighting spirit - into
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