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    Dec 03, 2020 2 minutes
    Simon Euan-Smith

    simonoldtimers@googlemail.com

    EBA correspondent

    THE latest Punch Lines, Essex EBA’s monthly newsletter, has an interesting two-page feature on black boxers, from bare-knuckle days to the start of the 20th century. There’s special mention of three fine heavyweights who never won a world title – Sam Langford, Joe Jeanette and Sam McVey.

    It ends with a section on ‘firsts’. I knew the first black fighter to win

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