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It was Trevor C. Wignall who penned the following in his book “The Sweet Science” in 1926:
“When a star drops out of the boxing sky it does not descend gradually or by easy stages. More often than not it falls with a sickening thud … The champion fighter, from the instant he gains his title, is a sort of human candle.