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War, Baby: The Glamour of Violence

by Kevin Mitchell · 2001

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An award-winning journalist and boxing aficionado recounts the story of the infamous 1995 bout between Britain's Nigel Benn and American Gerald McClellan that led to a reassessment of the sport as entertainment and of the procedures by which it is regulated.

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