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FATHER AND SON – FOR AND AGAINST

Senior US Correspondent

WHEN Teofimo Lopez defeated Vasiliy Lomachenko last month a new star was born. Not just the fighter himself after a virtuoso showing, but the man who has trained him from childhood, his father Teofimo Lopez Snr.

For the last couple of years the antics of the elder Lopez, while calling out Lomachenko, had garnered substantial media attention and not

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