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EVERY nation needs its heroes. Some provide inspiration and hope through their remarkable feats, others symbolise a set of the collective ideals to aspire towards. For the people of Nicaragua, a country diminutive in stature, famed for its stunning artistry and herculean in its resilience, their national treasure could not be more fitting.

Roman Gonzalez has spent the past 19 years dazzling boxing fans across the planet as he’s conquered multiple weight classes. Few fighters can claim to bring a sense of balletic beauty to the violence they dispense quite like ‘Chocolatito’, but in order to expose his supreme talent to the world, this modern great has had to take to the road

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