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    ESCAPE FROM L.A.

    Jun 25, 2020 4 minutes

    SteveBunce

    @BigDaddyBunce

    Voice of boxing

    IT was an exotic fight, the Z-Men, two fighters from a Promised Land of boxers meeting at the irresistible Inglewood Forum. It was out of reach, alien in every single way to a British fight fan.

    It took me over 30 years to finally watch the 1977 fight between Carlos Zarate and Alfonso Zamora. The reports had been devoured, the fight’s iconic status secured long before the marvel of the fight was ever watched.

    They were both world champions at bantamweight, both unbeaten, both young and at one point, the Godfather of Mexican boxing, Arturo

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