Article: Boxing: Strange game of Hide and seek over money

TWENTY YEARS ago almost to the week, the south Londoner John Daly pulled together perhaps the most exotic and successful promotion in boxing history when he paired Muhammed Ali with George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle. But in the early hours of tomorrow morning here, Daly looks set to produce one of the great turkeys of all time when Herbie Hide defends his World Boxing Organisation heavyweight title against Tommy Morrison in the fight which, it seems, virtually nobody wants to see.

The premise of the promotion was sound: with all that loose money floating around in Hong Kong, who cares to risk running in Atlantic City or New York? But Daly and his local partner, one William J ...

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