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HIGHS AND LOWS BEHIND THE MIC

SteveBunce

@BigDaddyBunce

Voice of boxing

IT happened one warm night in Las Vegas in 2007 when my head was tanned, I was wearing my lucky world title gold tie and my man from Del Monte suit.

The message was stark from the American producer. “We don’t need the bald guy,” he told me.

I was at the time in the ring, in Las Vegas at the Thomas and Mack, with an ecstatic Ricky Hatton. A few minutes earlier Hatton had connected to send Jose Luis Castillo down and out in round four. The one where he paused, took a step and

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