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BOXING ROYALTY

Miles Templeton

Boxing historian

AS I watch Ronnie O’Sullivan in his attempt to win a record eighth world championship snooker title at the Crucible, I am reminded of his illustrious boxing forebears. The O’Sullivan brothers were boxing royalty in London during the late 1940s and early 1950s. With most of London a bomb site, and with economic austerity and food rationing blighting the lives of the

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