Even when everything goes right, boxing still manages to have a problem

“Hands were made for hitting people,” Mickey Duff once argued. Then again, he would have said that, wouldn’t he? asks Brendan O’Brien.

Even when everything goes right, boxing still manages to have a problem

Born Monek Prager in a town near Krakow, Duff and his family fled to Britain a few years before the Second World War as the shadow of Nazism was poised to fall across Europe. His father was a rabbi who had a similar path in mind for young ‘Mickey’, as he became known, but boxing was a strong competing religion in London’s East End at the time.

Ultimately, it was no contest.

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