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The rebuild

CHARLIE EDWARDS was almost done with boxing. Only 28 years old, a former WBC belt holder, he ought to have plenty more to offer. But he wasn’t sure if he ever wanted to fight again.

He’s boxed and won twice since his 2019 contest with Julio Cesar Martinez but that fight and its aftermath haunted him a while. Back then, even when he was the WBC flyweight belt-holder, he started to struggle. “I didn’t really cope with being world champion very well,” he told . “It was like everyone wanted a piece of me and I didn’t know how to cope. I was getting pulled from

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