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MANY years ago, a team of New York City narcotics policemen regularly boxed a London select. It was an odd match, the undercover kings against the finest constables in the capital.

Every single member of the New York team was called something like ‘Joe Cortez of the Bronx’. The flyweight and all the way through to the heavyweight: Joe Cortez of the Bronx times 10. It always made me chuckle.

This simple ruse was introduced to make sure that there was never a picture of

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