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To understand boxing one must understand its roots. From its beginnings the sport has resonated with urban ethnicity, drawing its recruits from the tenements, the ******s, the projects, the barrios, the places that offered little presence and even less of a future. Many a troubled and troublesome youngster has embraced “The Sweet Science” as a way out, a social staircase from of the mean streets which form his limited world, fighting his way, bloody hand-over-bloody hand, up the ladder of acceptance the only way he knew: with his fists. [details]
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