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EBA correspondent

LONDON EBA member Bob High kindly contacted me to give me the sad news that former British and European bantamweight champion Johnny Clark had died. He was 73. From Walworth, Johnny had been suffering from dementia for some time, and the last few years of his life were spent in a care home in St Leonard’s, Sussex. Hastings EBA Chairman Dave Harris

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