MYTHS AND LEGENDS

@BigDaddyBunce

Voice of boxing

THERE has to be a bit of truth, a few lies, excess, invention, delusion and suffering in any good boxing story.

The history of the men and women that travelled on mules, camels, in trucks, swam, walked across mountains in snow, risked it in sinking dinghies, had fake passports and finally landed in a British ring is long and complicated. Joe Bugner was smuggled out of Hungary, through three-feet of snow on his mother’s back. Actually, that’s almost true.

They escaped the Taliban, the Soviets, the bombs, the noose, heartless traffickers, deranged lunatics with machetes and found