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The reinvention

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MARCH 4

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OHARA DAVIES could be about to pull off one of the current era’s great transformations after executing the best win of his career, the Londoner knocking out Lewis Ritson with a body-breaking left hook in the ninth round.

It has set up the 31-year-old with a shot at the WBA super-lightweight strap, currently in the possession of the Dominican Republic’s Alberto Puello, who is scheduled to make his maiden defence on May 13 against American Rolando Romero.

A man with penchant for a ruck with his rival before getting anywhere near the ring, and a perennial pantomime villain, Davies dreams of

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