Even the challenger’s win couldn’t ruin the atmosphere among a raucous 68,000 crowd at
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
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Speak to those who were lucky enough to be at fights in this country and elsewhere at the height of the pandemic and many will tell you they did not feel that lucky at all. As was the case in other sports, the lack of spectators made for an eerie experience, but in
boxing it also led to something altogether more disturbing – the sound of pain.
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