Kid Dynamite
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BRENTWOOD AUGUST 7
MAIN EVENT
UNDERCARD
ATMOSPHERE
EVEN with three years having passed since Brendan Ingle’s death, his unmistakeable influence could be detected throughout the masterclass Kid Galahad produced to so impressively defeat Jazza Dickens. A further generation removed from that which established Ingle as one of Britain’s greatest trainers, at 31 and at his peak, Galahad convincingly captured so much of what it was that brought Naseem Hamed, Johnny Nelson, Herol Graham and, ultimately, Ingle such success.
At Matchroom’s latest Fight Camp in Brentwood, Essex, he encountered a Dickens who had both physically and technically matured since the fight in September 2013 that ended in a 10th-round stoppage
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