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THERE is no masterclass or rule available as a guide for meeting and talking to boxers in the last days before a big fight.

It is best to avoid getting your head chewed off by a bored, weight-drained, starved, anxious man when you ask him how the last five weeks have been. An hour before the Savannah Marshall fight was scrapped, Karriss Artingstall might have just eaten a live swan had one wandered through the hotel lobby.

I have also witnessed Mike Tyson lose it too many times at that same dumb question, at that same dumb time. Josh Taylor

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