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VETERAN BOXERS’ ASSOCIATION

NATURALLY this column is mostly about British EBAs, but I recently came across a fascinating article from America and would like to quote the introduction.

“The first Veteran Boxers’ Association in the United States was formed in 1935, when former boxer Jimmy Love died in poverty and avoided a [pauper’s] grave due to the altruism of fellow pugilists. Ex-featherweight Johnny O’Beck then became the prime

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