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Mon 11 Nov 2009Lee shows his good and bad side
BOXING NEWS: HALF AN hour after the conclusion of his 10-round set-to with Andy Lee, Affif Belghecham, having more or less sampled the full gamut of the Limerick boxer’s arsenal, was asked what Lee needed to do to move on to the next level of his profession.
“He is a very good boxer,” replied the Frenchman. “But he needs to get . . . tougher.” Since it was fresh on his mind, we must assume that in this assessment Belghecham was referring to the last four or five minutes of Saturday night’s affray and not to the first eight rounds, in which Lee beat him from pillar to post, in the almost total absence of resistance from the French and European Union middleweight champion.
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