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LIVERPOOL
JANUARY 21
MAIN EVENT
ATMOSPHERE
IT WAS probably the only finish possible to end a week, a rivalry, a fight and an event that was truly exceptional.
Liam ‘Beefy’ Smith found the sweetest punches of his long, long life in boxing to send Chris Eubank Jnr sliding in bitter defiance to the canvas. Time stopped inside the cauldron of the AO Arena as people stood in shock, covering their mouths in disbelief, hollering at the ceiling and just staring in silence.
And then Eubank Jnr beat the count and somehow stood on the craziest
