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Crowned on a foul

N THE programme notes for his 1960 contest against Belgian Carlos Van Neste, it was said of Terry Downes that “you either like him or you hate him, but you can never ignore him, for the 23-year-old Paddington whizzbang brings colour to the British boxing scene in a way no other performer does today. His pre-fight antics and his dreadnought approach to his work, backed by

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