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Historically, boxing has a record for racial tolerance and integration that is the envy of all sports in Britain.
For decades, possibly centuries, boxing gyms on these isles have been inhabited by fighters of multiple colours and creeds, training and competing together harmoniously. Fighters earn respect from their fellow men through combat in the purest, most noble manner.
Middleweight Randolph Turpin from Leamington Spa – the son of a Guyanese immigrant father – became Britain’s first black boxing world champion in 1951, more than a quarter of a century before Viv Anderson became the first footballer to be capped for England.
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For decades, possibly centuries, boxing gyms on these isles have been inhabited by fighters of multiple colours and creeds, training and competing together harmoniously. Fighters earn respect from their fellow men through combat in the purest, most noble manner.
Middleweight Randolph Turpin from Leamington Spa – the son of a Guyanese immigrant father – became Britain’s first black boxing world champion in 1951, more than a quarter of a century before Viv Anderson became the first footballer to be capped for England.
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