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THE HELLRAISER

RANDALL “TEX” COBB would have been a great Olympian, fighting in one of those Cold War classics from the Seventies or Eighties.

After the carnage in Tokyo when Ricardo Torres Jnr beat Cuba’s Dainier Pero, they should be made obligatory.

Cobb would have relished a fight with Teofilo Stevenson or the great and neglected Soviet, Igor Vysotsky. It never happened and we had to accept the big Texan raising hell with a generation of very good heavyweights. And he was very good at raising

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