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    CLEVER EDDIE

    Sep 17, 2020 2 minutes
    Alex Daley

    @thealexdaley

    Historian & author

    NATIONALITY can be a contentious issue in boxing. When a leading fighter has lived for a long time in a place outside their birth country, fans will invariably debate which nation can rightly claim the said boxer.

    It happened with Bob Fitzsimmons, boxing’s first three-weight world champion, who was born in Cornwall in 1863 but emigrated to New

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