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‘The best trialhorse in the business’

A GREAT favourite of mine in the journeyman class from the late 1950s and the 1960s is Tommy Tiger, a Nigerian boxer who settled in Leicester.

He took part in 120 professional contests, managing to win only 30, but he was popular around British rings. Nowadays there are many journeymen with records like Tommy, but back then he was quite rare. He was one of the

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