A RUSSIAN TALE
@BigDaddyBunce
Voice of boxing
IT is hard to tell where this story starts or ends and that is not unusual when I pull a few facts together.
There was an envelope stuffed with a $1,000 in Havana, a bath stuffed with a dead man on Tchaikovsky Street in Moscow and a big lump swearing at me on the Turkish coast. They are probably all connected to Russian amateur boxing, perhaps the coldest of Cold War agencies.
In November of 1996, Ricky Hatton lost a tight one to a Russian in the semi-final of the World Junior Championships in Cuba; the Russian walked the
