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Seismic Shift

RATHER than using these pages to wrap up his fish and chips, Frank Warren may want to keep this issue for prosperity. As well as staging what is surely the most stacked British card of 2023 this weekend, the Hall of Famer is at the heart of a seismic shift in the sport of boxing that arguably makes him the most influential promoter in the entire sport.

And he told us it was coming. Game changing was the term he used, a term that was laughed at, when it was announced that heavyweight belt-holder Tyson Fury would be taking on debutant Francis Ngannou in a fight that would open Riyadh

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