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THERE’S ONLY 60 TIGER FLOWERS

IT was the like good old days with a boxer called Steve Robinson fighting in front of a packed house in Cardiff.

Same fans, same beer, same cheer and obviously, it’s a different Steve, but it still made me chuckle.

Actually, there are five Steve Robinsons in the boxing game, some gone, some forgotten and some, like big Steve, trying to get over losing his unbeaten record. This Steve Robinson is known as Ivan Drago, a six-foot-six beast, and the other Steve, the darling of the Welsh fans, was known as the Cinderella Man. Two very different fighting men with

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