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Miles Templeton

Boxing historian

THERE is a whole raft of world-rated boxers who died young.

Harry Greb, Pancho Villa and Tiger Flowers are three that spring readily to mind, and that is just during the 1920s. There are others who died in suspicious circumstances; Randolph Turpin, Oscar Bonavena and Arturo Gatti being notable examples. Sometimes these deaths are so mysterious that they spawn conspiracy theories, like

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