‘Out of the ring, he was fighting another fight’

‘Out of the ring, he was fighting another fight’

“They say that you can tell a lot about the character of a person by how people show up for them when they’ve gone.”

The funeral British boxer Anthony Yarde is telling BBC Sport about drew lots of of people on to the streets of Hackney, London, and more than 1,000 also reportedly attended his wake.

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They have been paying their respects to James Cook, a former British and European super-middleweight champion, who died in June at the age of 66.

But they have been remembering him as a lot more than a boxer or a coach.

To many, his most memorable fights have been against the knives, weapons and medicines in a notoriously violent space of the capital and his…

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