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DON’T FORGET FRANKIE

Matt Christie

@MattCBoxingNews

Editor

ALL around us are boxers who used to be somebody. Too often they’re pushed to the side because their broken bodies do not suit the narrative we’re trying to promote. We must not forget them.

Frankie Randall, the former world champion who died at the age of just 59 two days before Christmas, was among the sport’s final casualties of 2020. The man who shocked the world when he became

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