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TOMMY HYDE

When and why you started boxing:

I was seven. Boxing has always been in my family – I was named after my grand-uncle who was Irish senior champion in 1946 and one of the best boxers to come out of Cork. I knew I wanted part of it.

Favourite all-time fighter:

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