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Steve Bunce

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Boxing can learn from misfits as crossover competition provides glimpse of future - Caught on Camera

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In the old days, Dickie Davies would twinkle his eyes and introduce the tag-team wrestling from Dudley Civic Centre.

The camera would wobble, the smoke-filled arena would slowly come into focus and there, in the centre of a dirty three-roped ring, the MC for the day would name the chosen wrestlers. That was tag-team 1978 and it was glorious.

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