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NOT THE FOUR KINGS

WAYNE ALEXANDER. Paul Samuels. Michael Brodie. Neil Swain. Now, that is a proper boxing tag team.

In June, at the Merthyr Tydfil Labour Club in boxing’s sacred Welsh Valleys, the four fighters will be on stage and there will be a giant step back in time. It will be a night a long, long way from the glitz and ignorance of the modern boxing business. In all fairness, Merthyr is a long way from anywhere.

Four men, one night and perhaps they shared as many as 30 televised main events. They were at the heart

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