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The Tongan Terror

Boxing historian

IN recent years, British rings have been full of foreign boxers and they provide the backbone for very many of the small hall shows held up and down the country. Most of these boxers come from Eastern Europe and they are nearly all ‘journeymen’ with long losing records. Back in the 1950s, many UK bills also included foreign fighters, from all over Europe

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