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HISTORY IN YOUR HANDS

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WHAT an edition of gems, hidden tales, lost names and history.

On the cover, the iconic red and white and black version, Roy Jones is in the ring at the Seoul Olympics and the headline tells the whole story: Games of Shame! It was a very special edition of Boxing News from October 1988.

The latest threat to boxing’s potential Olympic exclusion had me searching for this iconic issue; I remembered an obscure editorial by a maverick reporter called Ivan Berenyi. It did not disappoint.

Fearless Ivan talked about Eastern Bloc

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