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DURAN FINISHES A CAN
OF PANAMANIAN BEER
AND CRUSHES IT IN HIS
HAND BEFORE OPENING
ANOTHER

HOME SWEET HOME:
Surrounded by friends
and family, Duran
happily sits on his sofa
in his living room

TREASURE ➤ some of his 21 guests either sit elsewhere to talk approval, and a further explanation for the sake of
TROVE: to another of those present, or move to discuss what BN. “Bolo punch; very good.”
Souvenirs and
silverware they have so far seen. At no point, however, is there “The black man is nervous. The fat boy is strong.”
from Duran’s any chance of Duran moving from what is clearly his Again, Duran laughs that most liberal of laughs. “No
career are favoured seat – the one he occupies regardless of heart.” If that is the harshest of observations, it is
dotted all over whether he has visitors. also relatively consistent with those retired fighters
the house
The perception that Ruiz had a successful fourth often make. They can view a fight or a fighter through
– the closer rounds are significantly harder to judge the prism of what they once were, and therefore
than they would be even at an atmospheric arena consider the solution to be something they – but
– meant that its conclusion is celebrated. The then- not necessarily the relevant fighter – once excelled
champion then punching his challenger on the back at doing. Realistically neither Joshua nor Ruiz are
of the head as it unfolded was also met with Duran’s capable of doing much one of the very finest fighters

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