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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Steve Bunce

The rare career of Josh Taylor showed the privileged burden that boxing can bring

It is not going to be easy for Josh Taylor to walk off into the boxing sunset after a remarkable career inside the ropes. It was also a brutally short career, a rare career in British boxing; it was unusual because of the speed, the relentless hard matchmaking and the success.

Taylor, who is now 34, is the only British boxer to have held all four of the accepted and respected belts in the modern era of a sport packed with division and false claims.

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