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“HE’S living in Dubai right now,” Gerry Cooney told me last week, the giant’s bright eyes smiling at the mention of the man’s name.

He was talking about a man called Harold Smith, the man behind the truly amazing Wells Fargo bank swindle. It was the swindle that threatened to change boxing, a swindle that should be a massive movie. A swindle that was very, very real. And Gerry was right in the middle of it, an innocent observer to the chaos.

At the heart of the madness was a visionary crook; his vision to takeover boxing included using the name of the Greatest,

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