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Carlos Palomino thrived in the company of legends. So much so, he became one himself. He talks to Craig Scott IT’S been 42 years since Carlos Palomino retired – well, for the first time, anyway. Now, 71-years old and still sharp, he speaks about a period mixing it on-screen with Hollywood’s finest actors, and relives his epic bouts with Roberto Duran, Wilfredo Benitez, and a Chino prison inmate. Palomino’s introduction to boxing and affinity with absorbing or inflicting punishing damage wasn’t entirely voluntary though. Growing up it was him and his brothers, performing like clowns in a violent circus, defending their father’s honour opposite older and far bigger kids in their Mexican American neighbourhood. “It will be stuck in my head forever; to become a world champion after emerging from my upbringing – we lived in serious poverty – it was a real achievement. My dad worked as a rancher, so we lived on this tiny property. He was a huge boxing fa ....