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HACKNEY WICK

APRIL 15

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IT STARTED with Joe Joyce, mocked up as The Terminator, chasing down Zhilei Zhang with a bionic right eye during his pre-ringwalk video segment. It ended with the 37-year-old, battered and bruised, pulled out with that same eye swollen almost completely shut.

Because while his chin might be constructed from something non-human, we now know that the rest of his face is made from skin and bone like the rest of us. And in the face of ‘Big Bang’ Zhang, and a laser-like straight left hand from his opponent’s southpaw stance, this remarkable heavyweight from

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