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“I’VE NEVER BEEN HIT LIKE THAT IN MY LIFE”

“GOING into the fight with Naoya Inoue, I knew it was an enormous task. I knew how good he was, but it was an opportunity of a lifetime. You beat a fighter like that and you’re a superstar. Your career just skyrockets and the world’s your oyster. Basically, it was high risk, high reward.

I had nothing to lose, and I went into that fight really believing that I could beat him. Unfortunately, I actually went into the fight with a badly injured hand, which

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