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NORMALLY, on December 21, the boxing world is blind drunk and counting down the days to Christmas. Not this year! No sir-eeee.

The Opening Bell towers is awash with activity, starting with the exquisite battle between Bam Rodriguez and Sunny Edwards, before we rock around the Christmas tree in anticipation of this weekend’s bumper card in Saudi Arabia. Atop which is genuine jeopardy for both Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder.  Will they both win?

Finally, we go back to 1963 and relive the moment when Emile Griffith really should have known better than to stand in the face of Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter.

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