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THE ITALIAN JOB

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IN 1991, one fresh November night, a WBO title fight took place in Campione D’Italia, a tiny enclave of about one and a half square miles less than a mile from the proper Swiss-Italian border. The venue was the historic Casino di Campione, which is in the town on the shores of Lake Lugano. The town is officially Italian, but surrounded by Switzerland. Surrounded in every direction.

In that ring that night was Italy’s 1984 Olympic champion, Maurizio Stecca, defending his WBO featherweight title. Stecca was a great little fighter. His challenger was Tim Driscoll, a florist from Bermondsey. It was a fight that deserves

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