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Fait accompli

MINNEAPOLIS, MN

JUNE 4

PERHAPS Stephen Fulton Jnr’s virtuoso performance against Daniel Roman in defence of the WBC and WBO super-bantamweight titles was fait accompli the moment he got out of bed fight day.

“I told y’all I was going to make it easy and fight depending on how I wake up, and I woke up feeling good,” said “Cool Boy Seth” in the immediate aftermath of his unanimous 12-round decision over Roman before a sold-out crowd of 4,695 at the Minneapolis Armory.

Following demanding fights with Brandon Figueroa and Angelo Leo in which Fulton outslugged the sluggers, the 27-year-old Philadelphian adopted a more defensive approach for Roman. Fulton is a super-striver who has compensated for

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