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THE DEBUT

IN Walsall last Sunday, the medics went missing, one fighter fell over at a swimming pool, one had Covid, one vanished and still the show went on.

Three local fighters sold the tickets and that added to the intimacy. Well, that and a long delay in a venue with bars as bookends and fans desperate for a good time, a laugh, a dance and a fight.

They seemed to get everything they wanted. It was that type of day and night.

The medics arrived, the first bell finally edged ever closer

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