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When Mexican hero Julio Cesar Chavez went 89-0 against Andy Holligan


When Mexican hero Julio Cesar Chavez went 89-0 against Andy Holligan
Andy Holligan loses to Julio Cesar Chavez, Norris is stunned by Brown and I’m floored by the mind-bending conditions, recalls Steve Bunce
AT a bullring in Mexico in the winter of 1993 the great Robbie Davies was at ringside wearing his Commonwealth Games blazer. Backstage, in a cold room used by the apprentice matadors, Andy Holligan was getting ready for the fight of his life against the hero of all Mexico, Julio Cesar Chavez, for the WBC light-welterweight title. There was no need for bookies.
On the night, as he walked to the ring, the fans were clustered in the cheapest seats – not seats, just concrete slabs – around fires burning in metal drums. I could see the high flames whenever anybody spat a mouth full of beer into the barrels. It was a vision of hell from my safe ringside seat, but Holligan had a serious go and knew exactly what he had signed for. “I’m not stupid, I’m fighting a ....

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Hughe Forde - Birmingham's forgotten British champ


Mike Lockley catches up with former British champion Hugh Forde who used to work feats of magic to boil down in weight
IN the days deprived of dieticians, nutritionists and day before weigh-ins, when removing stubborn pounds was a slog of starvation and saunas, not a science, Hugh Forde somehow managed to boil his long body down to super-featherweight.
The sacrifices were torturous, draining and, frankly, dangerous. Yet Hugh, near freakishly tall for the 9st 4lb division at 5ft 10ins, retained the skills and strength to win British and Commonwealth titles.
Harrowing stories about Hugh’s struggle with the scales still abound in Birmingham boxing circles. Hugh, now 56 and a Royal Mail worker, is not a part of the current fight scene and, to an extent, is Birmingham’s forgotten British champ. ....

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