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WHAT A YEAR

SteveBunce

@BigDaddyBunce

Voice of boxing

SACRIFICES and glory, shocks and blood, fights behind closed doors, Covid tests, rumours, lies, threats, tricky tributes, broken hearts, dead heroes, bad losers and smiling winners and a heavyweight fight for the ages – that was my 2020, here are the bits you might have missed or you will never forget.

In Las Vegas in February there was a man at ringside, throwing punches with his shoulders and remembering the nights he ruled the world. That man was Lennox Lewis, it was the night before Tyson Fury humiliated Deontay Wilder. Lewis was just relaxing, thinking and looking in front of

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