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Steve Bunce

@BigDaddyBunce

Voice of boxing

LAST week I was talking about the great Johnny Owen for a new film about the boxer’s short life and awful death.

Most people in boxing are familiar with the brutality and tragedy of his last fight with the Mexican, Lupe Pintor. It took place one night in Los Angeles, in a part of that city called Little Mexico, and if you have watched the end, you will never forget the end. There were 10,000 screaming for blood and a sacrifice that night inside the Olympic.

However, it was Owen’s fight

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