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ROUND three years ago, Stefy Bull, the Doncaster manager, trainer and promoter, sent a text message to one of his former amateurs, Terri Harper. It read: “Have you 100 per cent finished boxing now? Wondered if you would be interested in turning pro?

“Women’s boxing is taking off big time and it would be a shame for your talent to go to waste. I’m very confident I can make you a little star.”

That is how it has turned out for Harper. In February, she became the first

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