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Fourth time lucky

ALTHOUGH Hackney super-featherweight Lyon Woodstock has always known the importance of patience, never has his been tested as much as it has in the past two years.

Aside from the general chaos caused by a global pandemic, Woodstock has had his own uniquely personal stumbling block to overcome, in the form of a frequently postponed British super-featherweight title shot against Northern Ireland’s Anthony Cacace.

That fight, postponed three times so far, has been Woodstock’s own kind of virus for almost two years, but has now, much to his relief, been rearranged for the fourth and latest time on August 28

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