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Boxing Symbols: Are They Affected Or Unfair?

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My eyes were glimmering blue. As always, my hands were bruised from the boxing matches. As I was wrapping my hands in a bandage, A blue and red lights flashed on outside. A refined knock pounded the door. I opened the door. A person Tall, docile to the eyes. He broke the news to me; my dad was shot to death after he called the cops. All he had to give me was a paper that explained it: I needed to join an actual boxing league. I called the WBA commissioner to see if he could send a scout over to check me out. I decided to read the last of my dad's will; it had strange symbols on it. They kind of looked like boxing moves. I looked at it harder One of the moves a side sweep punch. I knew what these were. They were all my dad's success, and I knew

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