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ANYBODY drawing up their usual end-of-year awards would have been wise to wait until this mammoth card was out of the way before doing so.

Even without the two co-main events, there were thrills and spills throughout the undercard, with notable shouts for Upset of the Year and Knockout of the Year, while Daniel Dubois would have bludgeoned his way into the running for a few gongs himself.

The Londoner, off the back of his defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in the summer, had to dig deep in one of the heavyweight fights of the year to stop Jarrell Miller with just eight seconds remaining of their 10-round clash.

That alone made his one of the biggest comeback stories of 2023,

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