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Five kings

Boxing historian

IN this week’s photograph [right], five world welterweight champions stand alongside each other in a Los Angeles hotel. Four of them are ex-champions and one, Jimmy McLarnin, standing second right, is about to win his title.

The photograph was taken in 1933, a few weeks before McLarnin’s challenge against Young Corbett. On the left stands Young Jack Thompson, the title-holder between

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