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IMAGINATION is a magical thing, especially when you’re a kid and everything seems possible. Picture a small boy working up a sweat, moving his feet, swinging his pipestem arm and dreaming of becoming a boxer. It was young Stephen Fulton’s way of temporarily shutting out the rest of the world and channeling his anger into something he loved.

“When I shadowbox as kid, I did it with a great imagination. I’d imagine my opponent was there in front of me. That’s where my style comes from. It just me being ‘Cool Boy Steph,’ putting a lot of swag into my style,” said the No.4 super-bantamweight and WBO belt-holder, as we sat on a bench, side-by-side, inside a tiny changing room, the only place to escape the gym din on the other side of the door.

Fulton has a casual charisma, a 27-year-old man whose boyhood enthusiasm still dances in his eyes. Cool Boy