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‘We can’t all be Mayweather’

JON PEGG, Birmingham’s man about boxing, recently received a nice surprise. Pegg has found it easier to find opponents for his stable of fighters than it has been to find a copy of his short film, The Wait.

Made in 2009, The Wait is a darkly comic snapshot of a group of journeymen waiting to fight. Boxing News included it in our top 50 boxing movies a few Christmases ago.

“I had given up [on finding a copy of the film],” admitted Pegg.

“I thought I was more likely to find a film of Harry Greb. But then Richie Woodhall [who is in The Wait] rang me up and said he had found a copy of it in a box at his house.

“I’m looking forward to seeing it

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