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LAST Wednesday Liverpool’s Paul Butler received some unexpected but welcome news.

In bed at the time, he was woken by the screams of his girlfriend, who then delighted in telling him that John Riel Casimero had been stripped of his WBO bantamweight belt, meaning Butler, for so long linked with Casimero, was now its new owner.

“My girlfriend came running in saying ‘Guess what? Guess what?’ and I thought somebody had died,” Butler told Boxing News. “I asked her what had happened and she said I had been elevated to full

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