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    MOUNTAIN TO CLIMB

    Jan 21, 2021 4 minutes
    Steve Bunce

    @BigDaddyBunce

    Voice of boxing

    TN the summer of 1995 Nigel Benn ran up a mountain in Tenerife daily to prepare for one fight and forget another. It was, trust me, a form of punishment.

    He wanted to forget the night he had beaten Gerald McClellan in February, left the American in a hospital cubicle just minutes before emergency surgery. The pair had shared a ring at the London Arena that night, pushed each other way beyond any of sport’s bloody boundaries and in round 10 it finished. Benn won, McClellan lost and the other fight started. It was 10.03pm when it was over and

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