‘Not since Muhammad Ali has a fighter been this socially active,’ says the manager of the California-born fighter who is the new WBC light-welterweight champion
Donald Trump says he likes a good fight. And, although the Fat Controller would cut a comical figure in boxing shorts, he briefly was a dynamic promoter in the 80s and 90s at his casinos in Atlantic City before serial bankruptcies forced him to quit the Jersey boardwalk – and the fight game.
Nevertheless, although he ended up president of the United States, it is unlikely Trump will ever get a ringside invitation to watch his country’s latest boxing hero, the Californian-born José Carlos Ramírez.
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