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@ElliotWorsell

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MY long-held fear of ever becoming Editor of had nothing to do with seeing Matt Christie on the phone with irate promoters berating him for allowing one of his writers to call their show a two-star show when it was “clearly a fucking three-star show”. It had nothing to do with me seeing Matt Christie, on a Tuesday afternoon, learn that the fight he had assigned to that week’s cover had just been cancelled due to one of the boxers getting injured. It wasn’t even anything to do with seeing Matt Christie get driven to the brink of despair when either (a) someone in the office unaffiliated with would interrupt him hours before the magazine went to press to ask him what he thought of Tyson Fury retiring, or (b) he

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