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There is something special about a stadium fight night here in the U.K. The British love gathering en masse, dividing themselves into tribes and focussing their attention on a pitched battle. Jock McAvoy’s meeting with Len Harvey at White City Stadium, London on July 10th 1939 attracted so many people that contemporary attendance figures veer between an amazing 92,000 into a hundred plus thousand souls, many of whom headed to battle for their country months later. It is as if the fight was a recent reminder to the British that they are fighting people, steeling them for the impending war.
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