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NEW WORLD ORDER

ALL the elements were in place for the latest Saudi boxing extravaganza.

Upstairs in the shadows, the boss was lurking, downstairs on the top table, old and bitter rivals were laughing and backslapping and, in the audience, Gary Stretch, was wandering about, posing for pictures and smiling. It›s a brand-new world of boxing.

In the bowels of the building, in the coldest corner on earth, I had been given an area to interview the four main men in the latest Riyadh jamboree.

How the Saudis might have changed this mad business forever

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