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CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE

THERE is never a bad time to talk about world flyweight title fights and champions.

Sunny Edwards defends his title on Saturday [see pages 24-25] at the traditional home of world flyweight champions, Wembley. There is something strangely old-fashioned about flyweight, a division that brings back memories of great nights and terrible endings. And a lot of action.

The one-time hero of every seat in that old building was Charlie Magri. He was known, rather bizarrely, as Champagne Charlie. He left enough of his blood and heart and guts on the canvas in the Wembley ring that there

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