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THE honesty of Richard Torrez is disarming. “People say that their biggest fear is pubic speaking. Well, I don’t think any of them have been in an Olympic final with a guy who’s about 6ft 10. So it’s a little different!” he tells Boxing News.

The pressure on Torrez was extreme in the final at the Tokyo Games. He was going in with Bakhodir Jalolov, the towering Uzbek who had stopped him two years before

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