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A FIRST successful defence of the English super-bantamweight title came the way of Leeds ‘Magic Man’ Zahid Hussain at the Light Waves Leisure Centre, a fairly wide unanimous decision over Farnborough’s Andre Grant being secured at the conclusion of a 10-round contest overseen by Ron Kearney.

While unlikely to make it on to any Fight of the Year shortlists, one suspects Hussain will care not one iota that this was no barnburner, and his noisy

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