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and attorneys. The panel then voted unanimously in favour to award Fight Fax the position. The ABC later revealed that they had performed tests to measure the accuracy of each company's records: Fight Fax's records were shown to be 100% accurate, while the accuracy of BoxRec's records was found to be
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fight with Hamed's older brothers Riath and Nabeel. Sheppard had considered boxing to be a "barbaric and degrading" spectacle, stating "I sat there watching people punch each other in the head, wondering why they were doing it... I was sprayed with blood, getting more and more miserable." However,
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178:"Prince" Naseem Hamed
977:List of boxing films
952:Dementia pugilistica
887:Ancient Greek boxing
786:Short straight-punch
484:on 29 September 2018
962:Bare-knuckle boxing
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